There were two progenitors of this family in
Acadia, both named René. According to Acadian genealogist Stephen A.
White: "After a study of the dispensations granted upon the marriages of the
descendants of the Landrys,
it appears that the first two René
Landrys in Acadia could not have
been more nearly related than in the second to the third degree." In
other words, they were cousins, not father and son or brothers:

René
Landry, later called
l'aîné,
a farmer perhaps from La Chaussée, near Blois, in the Orleanais region of
the Loire valley in France,
born in c1618, came to Acadia in c1640, one of the early French settlers in
the colony.
He married Pérrine Bourg, widow of
colonist Simon Pelletret,
at Port-Royal in c1645.René's sister Antoinette had married Antoine
Bourg in c1642, so even before he started a family of
his own, René was
well-connected to an important family in the colony.
He and Pérrine had five children, including
two sons, both born at Port-Royal, who created families of their own.
Their three daughters married into the Comeau, Granger,
Richard dit Beaupré, and Dupuis families.
René l'aîné died at Port-Royal in the late 1670s
or early 1680s, in his 60s.

Older son Pierre, born in c1658,
married Madeleine, daughter of Étienne
Robichaud,
at Port-Royal in c1682. They remained in the Port-Royal area and had six
children, including five sons who married into the Mius d'Entremont
de Pobomcoup, Melanson, Mius de Pleinmarais, and Belliveau
families. Their daughter married into the Mius d'Entremont de
Pobomcoup family.

Younger son Claude, born in c1663,
married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Thériot,
at Port-Royal in c1683.
In 1714, after the British took over the colony, Claude
received permission from the French king to settle on Île Royale, today's
Cape Breton Island, which remained in French hands. Evidently Claude
remained at Port-Royal, where he and Marguerite had 10 children,
including four sons who married into the Babineau, Petitotdit
Saint-Seine, and Robichaud families. Five of their daughters
married into the Dugasdit Grivois, Boudrot, Bourg,
and Petitot dit Saint-Seine families.
Claude died at Port-Royal in
December 1740, age 79.
Several of his daughters did move on to Île Royale, settling at Port-Toulouse.

~

Another Landry,
born in France in c1634, also named René and called
le jeune, came to the colony by c1659,
when he married Marie
Bernard, a native of
Port-Royal.
René le jeunebecame the
patriarch of an even larger branch of the Landry clan.
René
le jeunewas not counted in the first Acadian census of 1671, but he did
appear in the second Port-Royal census of 1678.
He died at Port-Royal in c1693, in
his late 50s. He and Marie had 15 children, including eight sons, all
born at Port-Royal, who created families of their own. Six of their
daughters married into the Thériot, Racois dit de
Rosier, Dupuis, Richard, LeBlanc, and Blanchard
families. (René le jeune is a paternal ancestor of alligator
hunter Troy Landry of Pierre Part, Louisiana, featured on the History
Channel's popular "Swamp People" series.)

Oldest son Antoine, born in c1660, married
Marie, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau, probably at Port-Royal in c1681.
Later in the decade they moved to Chignecto and were counted at
Minas in the early 1690s. According to a 1702 report by a colonial
official, Antoine and his brother Claude were among "the first residents of
Les Mines." Antoine and Marie had 12 children, including six sons who
married into the LeBlanc, Forest, Doucet, Melanson,
and Bourg families. Their six daughters married into the Hébert, LeBlanc, and Babin families.
Antoine died at Grand-Pré in
February 1711, in his early 50s.

Claude, not to be confused with the son of
René l'aîné, was, like
the other Claude Landry, born
in c1663. He married
first to Marie-Catherine, another daughter of
Pierre Thibodeau, at
Port-Royal in c1684. They had 13 children, including five sons who married
into the Comeau, Melanson, Doucet, and LeBlanc
families. Four of their daughters married into the LeBlanc,
Gautrot, CélestinditBellemère, and Daigre
families. According to a 1702 report by a colonial official, Claude
and his older brother Antoine were among "the first residents of Les Mines." Claude remarried to Marie, daughter of Antoine Babin,
probably at Minas in c1725. They had no children. Claude remarried again--his
third marriage--to Jeanne, daughter
of André CélestinditBellemère and widow of Mathieu Brasseur
dit La Citarty, at Grand-Pré in May 1741. He had no children by his
third wife either.
Claude died at Grand-Pré in September 1747, in his mid-80s.

Jean, born in c1666, became a
carpenter. He married Cécile, daughter of Pierre Melanson
dit La Verdure, fils,
probably at Port-Royal in c1687. They were counted at Minas in
1693. They had nine children, including four sons who married into the
Dugas, Gautrot, Vincent, and Babin
families. Three of their daughters married into the Dingle,
Lejeune, and Daigre families.

René, fils, born in c1668,
married Anne, daughter of Bonaventure Thériot, at Port-Royal in c1691. They had 10 children, including four sons who married into the Melanson,
Thériot, Rivet, and LeBlanc families. Their three
daughters married into the LeBlanc and Vincent families.

Germain, born in c1674, married
Marie, another daughter of Pierre Melansondit La Verdure,
fils, at Port-Royal in c1694.
In 1714, Germain, living at Minas, having received permission from the
French king, was one of the Acadians who went with Father Gaulin to look at
land on Île Royale. He remained at Minas, where he and Marie had 11 children, including six sons who married into the Blanchard,
Babin, LeBlanc, and Bourg families. Three of
their daughters married into the Babin and Comeau families.

Abraham, born in c1678, married
Marie, daughter of Pierre Guilbeau, at Port-Royal in October
1701. In the same year of his marriage, Abraham was described by a
census taker as a "garçon à la pesche," or fisherman. In
the early 1700s, he and his wife moved to Pigiguit in the Minas
Basin. In 1714, Abraham also received permission to settle on Île
Royale, but, like his brothers, he remained in Nova Scotia. Abraham
and Marie had 10 children, including five sons who married into the Doucet,
LeBlanc, Flan, Rivet, and Thériot
families. Their three daughters married into the Bugeaud,
Rivet, LeBlanc, and Landry families. (Abraham is
alligator hunter Troy Landry's paternal ancestor through Abraham's oldest
son Pierre, who married Anne-Marie, daughter of René Doucet, at
Port-Royal in June 1726; Anne-Marie's mother was Marie Broussard,
older sister of the Beausoleil
Broussard brothersof Acadian resistance fame. Pierre and Anne-Marie settled at
Pigiguit.)

Pierre, born in c1680, became a
fisherman and married Madeleine, daughter of
François Broussard,
at Port-Royal in January 1704. They settled at Minas. In 1714,
he, too, received permission to settle on Île Royale. He and Madeleine had five
children, including three sons who married into the Babin, Thériot,
and Bourg families. Their daughter married into the LeBlanc
family.

Youngest son Charles dit Charlot, born in c1688, married Catherine-Josèphe, another daughter of
François Broussard, at Port-Royal in October 1708. In 1714, he,
too, received permission to settle on Île Royale. He and his wife
remained at Port-Royal. In September 1727, in their capacity as
delegates to the colonial council, Charles dit Charlot and two other
Port-Royal settlers refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new
British king, George II. The British imprisoned the three delegates
for this bold refusal. It cost Charles dit Charlot his life.
While being held in the stockade at Fort Anne, he fell gravely ill.
His wife beseeched colonial officials to release him so that "he could be
better looked after." The officials, calling him "a very Great
Offender," refused, and Charles dit Charlot died in
confinement in November 1727, in his late 30s. But before his early passing, he
fathered nine children with Catherine-Josèphe, including two sons who married into
the Girouard, Babin, Carret, and Pitre
families. Two of their daughters married into the Lanoue
and Savoie families.

The great majority of the Landrys who
emigrated to Louisiana came from this branch of the family. Abraham's
descendants are especially numerous in the Bayou State. ...

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Le Grand Dérangementscattered
these large families even farther. ...

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to
endure a disruption of their lives. In the early 1750s, Canadian
soldiers, assisted by Mi'kmaq warriors led by the fanatical French priest Abbé
Jean-Louis Le Loutre, burned Acadian homesteads in the British-controlled area east of
Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants to move to the
French-controlled area west of the river. Landrys may have been
among the refugees. ...

.

The Landrys shipped to Virginia endured a fate
worse than most of the other exiles deported from Minas. The Virginia governor,
Robert Dinwiddie, refused to allow the 1,500 Acadians sent to him in the fall of
1755 to disembark in
the Old Dominion. Hundreds of the exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships
anchored in Hampton Roads while the Virginia authorities pondered their
fate. A few Acadians were allowed to come ashore at various James
River settlements, but they were watched closely. When some of them
began to fraternize with African slaves, the Virginians returned them to the
transports, where they languished with the others. A hand full of
sturdy young Acadians managed to slip off the vessels and trek overland
through fields and forests and across the mountains, back to French Canada.
But most of the Acadians remained on the fetid ships, and more of them died. Finally, in the spring of 1756,
Governor Dinwiddie and Virginia's House of Burgesses made their decision ... the
French Neutrals must go! In May, the first shipment of Acadians left for England,
and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to
Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 of the original 1,500. Their
ordeal only worsened in the English ports, where they were treated like common
criminals.
In the spring of 1763, after the war with Britain finally ended, the French government consented to repatriate
the survivors to France. ...

LOUISIANA: RIVER
SETTLEMENTS

Landrys were among the very first Acadians to
find refuge in Louisiana. Olivier Landry of Chignecto, age
about 36, came to the colony with wife Cécile Poirier,
age 39, and three children--Joseph, age 16, Marie, age 14, and Jean-Antoine, age 3.
(One authority says that Olivier learned of the colony's good qualities from
a kinsman, Joseph De Goutin de Ville, a native of Port-Royal, who, at
first as an army officer and then as a merchant, had been living at
New Orleans since the late 1740s. Olivier's paternal grandmother,
Marie Thibodeau, was De Goutin's mother's older sister.) The Landrys and their three related families
from Chignecto--the Cormiers,
Poiriers,
and Richards,21 persons in all--left Savannah, Georgia, on 21 December
1763 aboard the Savannah Packet and sailed to Mobile, "from which place they are to go to New Orleans,"
proclaimed an article in the Georgia Gazette the following day. After a short stay in
Mobile, which now belonged to the hated British, they reached New Orleans in February
1764--the first recorded group of Acadians to settle in present-day
Louisiana. French
authorities, who still controlled the colony even though it had been ceded to Spain
in a secret treaty 15 months earlier, had not expected these new arrivals. The Acadians'
reputation for hard work and loyalty to France and the Roman Catholic faith having
preceded them, however, the colonial officials welcomed the Landrys et
al., gave them rice,
corn, and other necessities, and pondered where to send them. After
overseeing the baptism of several of their children at New Orleans--including
Olivier Landry's son Jean-Antoine--and consulting with
authorities, the Acadians moved upriver to
the recently-established concession of Cabanocé, later called St.-Jacques, where
they settled on a bend in the Mississippi along the right, or west, bank, of
the river in "the area of the vacant lands between [Nicolas] Verret's
plantation and [Jacques] Jacqueline's cow ranch," at present-day Lagan,
St. James Parish. Cabanocé thus became the first Acadian community in
Louisiana, predating the Bayou Teche settlement by a full year.

Olivier and Cécile had no more
children in Louisiana. Olivier died before April 1777,
when his wife remarried at St.-Jacques. Daughter Marie married into
the Thibodeaux
family. Olivier's younger son probably
died young,
but his older son carried on the family line in what became St. James
Parish:

Joseph, elder son of Olivier Landry
and Cécile Poirier, born at Chignecto in c1751, was deported to
Georgia with his family in 1755. He moved with them to Charleston,
South Carolina, in 1763, followed them back to Georgia, and went with them
to Louisiana via Mobile, Alabama, in late 1763 and early 1764. He
married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste
Cormier, père, at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in c1768. Anne also
had come to Louisiana from Georgia via Mobile in 1764. Spanish
officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at
St.-Jacques in 1777. Their daughters married into the Green,
Poirier,
Richard, and Theriot
families. Joseph died in St. James Parish in January 1811; he was 60
years old. Only two of his five sons seem to have created families of
their own, and only a single line--that of a grandson--remained on the
river, in St. James Parish. Another grandson settled on upper Bayou
Lafourche.

1

Oldest son Joseph, fils,
born probably at St.-Jacques in c1770, married
Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Michel, at St.-Jacques
in February 1797. Their son Joseph III was born at St.-Jacques
in September 1799, Pierre Léon in July 1805, and Jean Hildebert,
Ildebert,or Philibert near Convent, St. James Parish,
in May 1810. Their daughter married into the Thibodeaux family. Joseph,
fils died near Convent in April 1835; the priest who recorded his
burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a
wife, said that Joseph died at "age 65 yrs.," so this probably was him.
Two of his three sons married, but only one of their lines seems to have
survived. It remained in St. James Parish, but it was a vigorous line.

1a

Joseph III married Anastasie,
also called Octavie, daughter of French Creole
Jacques Poché, at the Convent church in July 1825. Their son
Joseph IV was born near Convent in September 1828, Norbert Sylvère
or Sylvain, also called Sylvère Norbert,in July 1830, Joseph
Philippe, called Philippe,in January 1835, Joseph Justin in August 1842, and
Joseph Clément in February 1847.
They also had a son named Joseph Théophile, called Théophile. Their daughters married into the
Badeaux, Guidry, Part, and Poirier
families. Joseph III died near Convent in February 1866; the
priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any
parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Joseph died at "age 67
years"; Joseph III would have been 66 years old, so this was him.

Joseph IV married Élise,
called Lise, daughter of French Creole Michel LeBoeuf, at the Convent
church, St. James Parish, in March 1849; Élise's mother was a
Guidry. Their son Alfred was born near Convent in
May 1862, Joseph V in May 1860, and Victor in December
1864. Their daughter married into the Bethancourt
family.

Norbert Sylvère married
Marie Irma, called Irma, daughter of German Creole Evariste Oubre, at the
Convent church, St. James Parish, in April 1849. Their son
Joseph Sylvère le jeune was born near Convent in March 1850 but
died the following November, Léon Norbert was born in April
1856, Alcée in January 1860, George Jefferson died
at age 10 months in August 1862, and Joseph was born in
February 1869.

Philippe married first
cousin Marie Augustine, called Augustine, daughter of French Creole Jacques Poché, at
the Convent church, St. James Parish, in August 1855; they had to
secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to
marry. Their son Philippe Aubrez or Aubry was
born in St. James Parish in July 1856, and Joseph Jhonson,
probably Johnson,in March 1864. Philippe
remarried to first cousin Marie Olide or Olype, another daughter of Jacques
Poché, in a civil ceremony probably in St. James Parish, and
sanctified the marriage at the St. James church, St. James Parish,
in May 1869; they had to secure a dispensation for first degree of
affinity and second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
Their son Fernand Emmanuel was born in St. James Parish in
November 1868.

Joseph Théophile married
Geneviève Élodie, called Élodie, daughter of Simon Rouiller, Rouillier,
or Rouillet, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in
August 1855, on the same day and at the same place his brother
Philippe married. Théophile and Élodie's son Louis
Théophile was born near Convent in October 1864, and Jean
Antoine in March 1867.

Joseph Clément married
Louisa, minor daughter of fellow Acadian Philemon Guidry, at
the St. James church, St. James Parish, in November 1867.

1b

Hildebert married cousin Marie Euphémie,
called Euphémie, daughter of Élie
Landry of West
Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish,
in April 1830. Their daughter married into the Hébert
family. Hildebert remarried to Clémence, daughter of French
Creole Gerasin Desormeaux, "at the home of Joseph Landry,"
perhaps his older brother, in St. James Parish in December 1835; the second
marriage was recorded at both the St. James and Convent churches.
Did Hildebert father any sons by either of his wives?

2

Pierre, baptized at
St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in March 1772, died in Assumption Parish, on
upper Bayou Lafourche, in November 1815. He was only 44 years old, a
resident of St. James Parish, and probably never married.

3

Benjamin, baptized at
St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in February 1774, married cousin
Anne-Apolline, called Apolline and Poulone, daughter of René Landry of Ascension, at St.-Jacques in
April 1799; Apolline's mother, also, was a Landry. Their son
Benjamin, fils was born at St. James in January 1804,and
Placide in March 1808 but died the following August.
Their daughters married into the Achée and Blanchard families. Apolline died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in April 1808; she was
"age about 35 yrs." Benjamin
remarried to cousin Marie Céleste, called Céleste, daughter of Anselme Landry
and widow of Allain Babin and Amand Braud, at the St. James
church, St. James Parish in November 1810. Their son Joseph Sylvère,
called Sylvère,
was born in St. James Parish in December 1815. Benjamin died in St. James
Parish in March 1816; the priest who recorded his burial said that Benjamin
was 45 years old when he died, but he was only in his early 40s. Only
one of his sons seems to have married, and he settled on upper Bayou
Lafourche.

Joseph Sylvère married
Rosalie or Rosaline, daughter of Jacob Rebre of Germany, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1835. They
remained
on upper Bayou Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension
parishes.

4

Jean-Baptiste, baptized at
St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in October 1779, may have died young.

5

Youngest son François,
baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in May 1781, may have died in St.
James Parish in March 1816. The priest who recorded his burial said
that Francois was "age about 40 yrs." when he died and mentioned no wife,
so he may not have married.

Jean-Antoine LANDRY (1760-?;
René le jeune, Antoine, Joseph)

Jean-Antoine, younger son of
Olivier Landry
and Cécile Poirier, born probably in Georgia in November 1760 and
baptized at New Orleans in February 1764, soon after his family came to
Louisiana from Georgia via Mobile, was still alive in 1766, when Spanish
officials counted his family at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques. He then
disappears from Louisiana church records, so he probably
died young.

~

In 1765, a year after the first Landrys
came to Louisiana, a young widower, an orphan, and two wives reached New
Orleans from Halifax with dozens of other
refugees from Nova Scotia. They also settled at
Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, which soon was being called the Acadian Coast:

Osite Landry, age 32, came
with husband Pierre Chiasson of Chignecto, age 35, her husband's
brother Paul Chiasson, age 19, her husband'snephew
Jean-Baptiste Chiasson, age 3, and two children, ages 6 and 1.

Marie Landry of La Famille,
Pigiguit, age unrecorded, came with husband Joseph Bourg of
Grand-Pré, age 43, brother-in-law Charles Bourg, age 3, and four
children, ages 20 to 5. Joseph died either on the voyage from Halifax
via St.-Domingue or in Louisiana soon after the family reached New Orleans.
Marie remarried to François, son of fellow Acadian Paul Savoie of
Chepoudy and widower of Anne Aucoin, at New Orleans in July 1765--one
of the earliest Acadian marriages recorded in Louisiana. They settled
at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where Marie died by October 1766, when her husband
remarried ... again.

Joseph Landry, age 26, a
young widower, came with two sons, Joseph, fils, age 2, and Pierre,
age 1. They remained at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques.

Another Marie Landry, who
would have been only 13 in 1765, may have come to the colony from Halifax
via St.-Domingue that year. She married fellow Acadian Charles
Thibodeaux at Cabanocé in c1768, when she was only 16. They
settled on the left, or east, bank of the river there.

Descendants of Joseph LANDRY
(c1739-?; René le jeune, Abraham)

Joseph, eldest son of Abraham
Landrydit Petit Abram and his first wife Élisabeth LeBlanc,
born probably at Pigiguit in c1739, eluded British forces in 1755 and took
refuge probably on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. Meanwhile, his
family was deported to Maryland. During Le Grand Dérangement,
Joseph married a woman whose name has been lost to history. The British
held them as prisoners in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s. At least two
sons were born to them probably in Nova Scotia in c1763 and 1764.
Joseph, probably a widower by then, took his two sons to Louisiana via St.-Domingue
in 1765. They settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where Joseph reunited
with his father, stepmother, and siblings, who had come from Maryland, in
1766. Joseph remarried to Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian
Pierre Granger, at Cabanocé in August 1768. She gave him more children,
including sons. Spanish officials counted them on the right, or
west, bank of the river at Cabanocé in 1769 and on the same side of the
river at nearby Ascension the following year and in 1777. Joseph
remarried--his third marriage--to Marie, daughter of perhaps fellow Acadian Pierre
Braud and widow of Olivier Babin and Pierre Foret, at
Ascension in May 1782. Only one of his many sons seems to have created a family
of his own and settled in what became Ascension Parish.

1

Oldest son Joseph, fils, by
his first wife, born probably in Nova Scotia in c1763, may have died young.

2

Pierre, by his first wife,
born probably in Nova Scotia in c1764, also may have died young.

3

Éloi, by his second wife,
died at Ascension, age unrecorded, in October 1772.

4

Grégoire-Raphaël, by his
second wife, died in Ascension 5 days after his birth in October 1773.

5

Guille or
Guillaume-Raphaël, called
Raphaël, from his second wife, born at Ascension in January 1775, married Marie-Madeleine,
called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Braud, at Ascension in November
1792. Their son Augustin- or Auguste-Valéry, called Valéry, was
baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in September 1793, Polycarp
was born in January 1802 but died at age 3 1/2 in September 1805, Henri was born in November 1808,
and Terence Joseph or Jean posthumously in August 1815.
Their daughters married into the Babin, Broussard, Dupuis, Landry, and Tregle families. Raphaël died in
Ascension Parish in April 1815; the Donaldson priest who recorded the burial
did not bother to give any parents' names or even Raphaël's age at the time
of his death, but the priest did call Raphaël "spouse of ___ Braud,"
so there is no doubt that this was him; Raphaël was only 40 years old when
he died.

5a

Augustin Valéry married
cousin Constance Céleste or Célestine, called Céleste, daughter of Eusèbe Landry, at
the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in June 1818. Their son
Valéry Didier was born in Ascension Parish in May 1819. Céleste
died a week after son Valéry Didier was born; she was only 19 years old.
Augustin Valéry remarried to cousin Rose or Marie Hortense, called
Hortense, daughter of
Désiré Landry, at the Donaldson church in March 1822. Their
son Auguste Dorsini, called Dorsini and Dorsino,was baptized at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension
Parish, age 5 months, in January 1826, and Raphaël le jeune in April 1827
but died less than 2 weeks later. Augustin Valéry died in
Ascension Parish in August 1852; the priest who recorded the burial said
that Augustin Valéry died at "age 60 years."

Dorsini married Marie Roselia
or Rosella, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Braud, at the
Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1843.
Their son Raphaël Dorsini was baptized at the Donaldsonville
church, age unrecorded, in October 1845 but died at age 8 in
September 1853, Alexandre Sylvestre or Sylvestre Alexandre was born
in January 1848, and André Jackson in August 1851.
Their daughter may have married into the Barland family. Dorsini remarried to cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian
Ursin Babin and widow of Gervais Gautreaux, at the
Donaldsonville church in April 1856; they had to secure a
dispensation for third degree of both consanguinity and affinity in
order to marry. Their infant child, name and age unrecorded,
perhaps a son, died in Ascension Parish in July 1857, son
Joseph Robert Dorcino was born in August 1864, Vincent
Sidney Alphred in September 1866, and twins Joseph Alphred
and Louis Albert in January 1870.

Alexandre Sylvestre, by his
first wife, married Marie Malvina, called Malvina, daughter of fellow Acadian Derosin Bourgeois, at
the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1866.
Their son William Alexandre was born in Ascension Parish
in June 1868.

5b

Terence married cousin Marie Antoinette,
called Antoinette, daughter of fellow Acadian
Alexandre Braud and widow of Nicolas Babin, at the
Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in November 1849; they had to
secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to
marry. Their son Théodule Joseph was born in Ascension
Parish in December 1850, William Franquelin in November 1852, and Terence, fils posthumously in May
1856 but died at age 10 in July 1866. Terence, père died in Ascension Parish in October 1855; the
Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to
give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Terence Jean,
as he called him, died at "age 40 years, 31 days."

6

Youngest son François, by his second
wife, born at Ascension in October 1779, died at age 11 months in September
1780.

~

A Landry who had gone to
the Bayou Teche valley with the Broussard party in April 1765
lost his wife probably to childbirth a few months later, and his infant son died
the following September. After his son's death, he joined dozens
of his fellow Acadians in an exodus from the Teche to the river and
remarried at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, but his line probably did not survive:

Descendants of Mathurin
LANDRY (c1737-1823?; ?)

Mathurin Landry, born in
Acadia in c1737, married Marie Dugas. They escaped the British
roundup of 1755 and took refuge probably on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.
In the early 1760s, the British held them as prisoners of war in Nova Scotia.
They followed the Broussard dit Beausoleil party from
Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, and reached New Orleans
in February 1765. In April, they followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche. Marie died in the epidemic that swept through the Teche
valley that summer and fall, or she may have died from childbirth.
Their son was born in late July but died the following September, and Marie
died three days after her son's birth. Mathurin did not remain on the
Teche but retreated with dozens of other Tech valley Acadians to
Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river and did not return to the western
prairies. Spanish officials counted him on the right, or west, bank of
the river at Cabanocé in April 1766; he was living with a widow and
her sons, so he probably was an engagé. He remarried to a woman
whose name has been lost to history probably at St.-Jacques in the early
1770s and moved upriver to St.-Gabriel, where Spanish officials counted him
and his wife on the "right bank ascending" in 1777. By then, he was
the father of two daughters, ages 10 and 6, and owned 3 slaves, 12 head of
cattle, 14 hogs, and 20 chickens on his 6 arpents of frontage along the river. He may
have died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in August 1823, age 86.
His second wife does not seem to have given him any more sons. If so,
his family line died with him.

Isidore, by his first wife, born at Attakapas
in July 1765, died along the Teche the following September, a victim,
perhaps, of the epidemic that killed dozens of his fellow Acadians that
summer and fall.

~

Most of the Landrys who
came to Louisiana--at least 129 of them--immigrated from Maryland. The first contingent
from that colony--67 more Landrys--reached New Orleans in September 1766--the
largest single
Acadian family group ever to reach Louisiana.
They settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where their cousins from Georgia and
Halifax already had gone. After the arrival of these Maryland exiles,
the number of Landrys dramatically increased along the Acadian Coast:

Abraham dit
Petit Abram Landry of Pigiguit, age 54, twice a widower, came with nine
children--Étienne, age 24, Simon and Anne-Osite, age 22, Marguerite, age 15,
Pierre-Abraham dit Pitre, age 14, Élisabeth, or Isabelle, age 12,
Joseph dit Le Cadet, age 9, Marie-Madeleine, age 7, and Marie, age
unrecorded. Petit Abram remarried to Claire, daughter of fellow
Acadian Étienne Rivet and widow of Bonaventure Foret, probably
at nearby Ascension in the 1770s; he was in his early 60s at the time of the
wedding. She gave him no more children.
His daughters married into the Bourgeois, Broussard, and
Duhon families, and perhaps into the Savoie family as well, and settled at Ascension and on upper Bayou Lafourche.
His sons settled at Ascension. Petit Abram died at Ascension in August
1786; he was 74 years old.

Marie-Anastasie, called Anastasie, Landry of
Pigiguit, age 18, Petit Abram's daughter, came with husband Amand Babin
of Pigiguit, age 24, and two of his sisters, Élisabeth-Madeleine, age 22,
and Marie-Josèphe, age unrecorded. They settled at Ascension, where
Anastasie died in August 1795, in her late 40s.

René Landry of Pigiguit,
age 50, Petit Abram's brother and also a widower, came with five
children--Marin, age 18, Félicité, age 16, Olivier, age 13, Joseph dit
Dios, age 9, and Firmin, age 6. René remarried to Anne, daughter of
fellow Acadian Abraham Landry (not his brother) and widow of
Jean-Baptiste Broussard, probably at Cabanocé in the late 1760s.
She gave him more children, including another son. Daughter Félicité
by his first wife married into the Babin and Melançon
families.

Joseph Landry of Pigiguit,
age 56, Petit Abram and René's older brother, came probably with one of his
younger brothers. He was deaf and never married. He followed his
brothers to Ascension.

Marie-Madeleine Landry of
Pigiguit, age 43, sister of Petit Abram et al., came with husband Désiré
LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, age 43, and 10 children, ages 24 to 4. They
settled at Cabanocé and Ascension. Marie-Madeleine remarried to
cousin Pierre dit Pierrot à Jaque, son of Abraham
Landry and widower of Geneviève Broussard and Euphrosine
Gautreaux, at St.-Jacques in February 1778.

Marie-Josèphe Bourg, age
55, widow of Joseph Landry, came with four children--Marie-Madeleine,
called Madeleine, age
19, Marguerite, age 16, Anne-Gertrude, called Gertrude, age 15, and Joseph, fils,
called Belhomme, age 14. Marie-Josèphe did not remarry. Her daughters married
into the Bujole, Comes, LeBlanc, Melançon,
Pichoux, and
Sierra families. Daughter Gertrude moved to the western
prairies in the late 1770s, but Marie-Josèphe's other daughters settled at Ascension, as
did son Joseph dit Belhomme. Daughter Madeleine, widow of Thomas Comes,
Jérôme LeBlanc, and Jean Baptiste Pichoux, died at Ascension
in October 1800, age 53. Daughter Marguerite, widow of Augustin
Sierra and Joseph Melançon, died in Ascension Parish in October
1840, age 90. Joseph dit Belhomme's youngest son, Trasimond,
served as lieutenant governor of Louisiana during the late 1840s.

Pierre dit
Pierrot à Chaques Landry, age 45, yet another widower, came with six
children--Jean, age 14, Osite, age 13, Jean-Baptiste and Isabelle, age 10,
Firmin, age 7, and Paul, age 4. Pierrot à Chaques remarried to
Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Gautreaux and widow of
Pierre Granger, probably at Cabanocé in the late 1760s, and remarried again--his
third marriage--to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian AbrahamLandry and widow of Désiré LeBlanc, at St.-Jacques in
February 1778. Neither wife gave him more children. Daughter Osite
by his first wife married into the Bujole and
Landry families and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. Pierrot à
Chaques
owned 53 head of cattle, 8 horses, 55 swine, and 6 slaves on 11 arpents of
frontage at Ascension in 1777, a remarkable number for an Acadian in that
place and time. He died at Ascension in July 1791, age 70. His sons
remained on the river.

François Landry of
Pigiguit, age 44, another widower, came probably with three children--François,
fils, age 25, Pélagie, age 17, and Joseph, age 8. François, père did not
remarry and died at
Ascension in February 1797, in his mid-80s. François, fils
settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques. Pélagie married a
Landry cousin and settled at Ascension. Joseph also married at
St.-Jacques but settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.

Ursule Landry, age 42,
widow of Jean-Baptiste Babin, came with three children, ages 18 to
10. They settled at Cabanocé and Ascension, but one of her
daughters moved to the western prairies in the 1770s or 1780s.

Vincent Landry of Minas,
age 39, came with wife Susanne Godin, age 29, and their infant son
Charles-Caliste. They had more children in Louisiana, including
another son, and moved from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche by the early
1790s.

Pierre dit La
Vielliarde Landry of Pigiguit, age 34, Étienne's brother and another widower, came
with four children--Joseph, age 10, Anne-Isabelle, age 7, Pierre-Alexis, age
4, and Fabien, age 2. Pierre dit La Vielliarde remarried to a
Landry cousin at Cabanocé in
November 1767. She gave him more children, including sons. They,
too, moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche. (Pierre dit La Vielliarde
and his first wife, through their son Pierre-Alexis, are ancestors of alligator hunter Troy Landry of the
History Channel's popular "Swamp People" series.)

Étienne Landry of Pigiguit,
age 32, Pierre dit La Vielliarde's younger brother, came
with second wife Marie-Josèphe Landry and daughter Anastasie, age 9.
Marie-Josèphe was pregnant when they reached New Orleans; son Jean-Baptiste
was born at Cabanocé in c1767. They had more children in Louisiana and
also moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche.

Firmin Landry, age 38, yet
another widower, came with four children--Hélène, age 14, Joseph, age 13,
Saturin, age 11, and Marie-Madeleine, age 9. Firmin remarried to
fellow Acadian Théotiste dite SallyThibodeaux, widow of Bonaventure Godin,
at either St.-Jacques or Attakapas in c1769 and created a western branch of the family
in the Attakapas District.

Marie-Rose, called Rose, Landry, age 36,
came with husband Jean-Baptiste Breau of Pigiguit, age 41, and six
children, ages 19 to 7. They settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques and Ascension.
Rose died at St.-Jacques, a widow, in January 1796, in her late 60s.

Anne Landry of Minas, age
34, widow of Joseph Broussard, came with two sons, ages 14 and 6.
She was pregnant when she got to New Orleans, and son Paul was born in the
city the following November. Anne remarried to René, son of fellow
Acadian Abraham Landry, probably at Cabanocé in the late 1760s.
They settled at Ascension.

Anne Landry, age 29, came
with husband Pierre LeBlanc, age 35, and their 7-year-old daughter.
They also moved to Ascension, where Anne died in May 1808, a widow.
The priest who recorded her burial said that Anne was 77 years old when she
died, but she was closer to 71.

Charles Landry, fils
of Pigiguit, age 28, still a bachelor came with five of his younger
unmarried siblings--Amand-Pierre, age 20, Pélagie, age 17, and Anne,
François, and Marie, ages unrecorded. Charles, fils married
twice on the river and took his second wife and a daughter to the Attakapas
District in the late 1770s or early 1780s. Amand and Pélagie
already had gone there in the 1770s. The other siblings remained on
the river.

Jacques Landry of Pigiguit,
age 23, brother of Charles, fils et al., came with wife Françoise
Blanchard, age 19, and his brother Joseph, age 14. Jacques and
Françoise's children were born in Louisiana. They settled at Ascension, as
did brother Joseph.

Marie Landry, age 28, came
with husband Amand-Paul Gautrot, age 35, and their year-old daughter.
They settled at Cabanocé and Ascension.

Marie-Josèphe Landry, age
28, evidently came to Louisiana alone. She married fellow Acadian Paul
Foret at New Orleans in c1768 and settled with him at
Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where she remarried to Basile, son of Nicolas Le
Claire of Québec, in April 1777. Marie-Josèphe died near Convent,
St. James Parish, in May 1818; the priest who recorded her burial said that
she was 85 years old when she died, but she was closer to 80.

Anne Landry, age 26, widow
of Joseph Melanson, came with two children, ages 6 and 3. Anne
lived for a time at Cabanocé and Ascension, remarried to fellow Acadian
Augustin Broussard, and followed him to the
Attakapas District in the early 1770s.

Geneviève Landry, age 22,
also came alone. She married Joseph dit Bellefontaine dit
Lincour, son of probably René dit Jean-René Godindit
Valcour, probably at Cabanocé in c1768 and died by August 1770, when her
husband was listed in an Ascension census without a wife.

Basile Landry of Grand-Pré,
age 16, came alone. He married at St.-Jacques in 1776, lived at
Ascension, and moved to the Attakapas District in the late 1770 or early
1780s.

Descendants of René LANDRY
(c1716-1781; René le jeune)

René, son of Abraham Landry
and Marie Guilbeau, born probably at Pigiguit in c1716, married
Marie, daughter of Jacques Thériot, at Grand-Pré in February 1737.
The British deported them to Maryland in 1755. Colonial officials
counted René and four of his children at Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern
Shore, in July 1763; Marie had died by then. René came to Louisiana in
1766 and remarried to cousin Anne, daughter of another Abraham
Landry and widow of Jean-Baptiste Broussard, probably at
Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in the late 1760s. She gave him more children,
including sons. Their daughter married a Landry cousin.
Spanish authorities counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at
Cabanocé in 1769 and on the same bank at nearby Ascension in 1770 and 1777.
They owned three slaves in 1777. René died at Ascension in June 1781;
he was 64 years old. Three of his sons moved to the western prairies
and another to upper Bayou Lafourche, but his oldest and youngest sons remained on the river.

1

Oldest son Marin, by his
first wife, born in
Acadia in c1748, married cousin Pélagie Landry probably at
St.-Jacques in c1770. Their son Donat was born probably at
St.-Jacques in c1779, Éloi in c1783, and Valentin-Marin in
February 1790. Their daughters married into the
Gautreaux,
Godin,
Hébert, and
Melançon
families. Marin died in St. James Parish in October 1812; the priest
who recorded his burial said that Marin was "age about 68 yrs." when he
died, but he was closer to 64. Two of his three sons married and
created families of their own in St. James Parish. One of his
grandsons moved to the western prairies, but the others remained on the old
Acadian Coast.

1a

Donat married Marie-Marthe,
called Marthe, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Lanoux, at St.-Jacques in May
1800. Their son Éloi Framentin was born at St. James in
September 1806 but died near Convent, St. James Parish, age 12 1/2, in
April 1819, a son, name and age unrecorded, died in March 1807, Augustin
dit Doradou or Douradour was born in c1810, Arsène near Convent in December 1819 but
died at age 8 months in September 1820, Donat, fils was born in July 1823,
and Pierre Vileor, called Vileor, in August 1825 but died
at age 12 1/2 in March 1838. Their daughters married into the
Bourg, Gravois,
Lanoux,
LeBlanc, Peytavin, and Richard
families. Donat died near Convent in July 1835; he was 56 years
old.

Augustin dit
Doradou married Marie
Phelonise, called Phelonise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Dugas, at the
Convent church, St. James Parish, in September 1829. Their
daughters married into the Bourgeois, Melançon, and
Mire families. Augustin
died near Convent in June 1833; he was only 23 years old. Did
he father any sons?

Donat, fils married
Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Richard, at the
Convent church, St. James Parish, in January 1845. Their son
Donat III was born near Convent in December 1845, and
Martin Benjamin, called Ben,in July 1847.
Their daughter married into the Bourque family. Donat, fils died near Convent in June 1850; he was only 26
years old.

Ben married first
cousin Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Amédée Bourque,
at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in April 1867;
Estelle's mother was Ben's paternal aunt, Célestine Landry,
so he and Estelle had to secure a dispensation for second degree
of consanguinity in order to marry.

Donat III married
Sally Ann, also called Célene, Rochell or Rochelle
at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May 1869.
Their son Pierre William was born in Ascension Parish in
May 1870.

1b

Éloi married Marie-Madeleine,
called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Melançon, at
St.-Jacques in December 1801. Their son Éloi, fils, also
called Éloi Marin, was born near St. Gabriel,
Iberville Parish, in January 1808, and Narcisse Marin in St.
James Parish in January 1819 but died at age 13 in September 1832. Their daughters married into the
Babin,
Boudreaux, LeBlanc, and Melançon
families. Éloi, père died in St. James Parish in February
1823; he was only 40 years old. His surviving son moved to the
western prairies in the 1830s.

Éloi, fils married
cousin Madeleine Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of fellow
Acadian Jean Theriot, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension
Parish, in February 1829; Mathilde's mother was a Landry;
they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity
in order to marry. Éloi, fils remarried to cousin Marie
Bathilde or Bertille, daughter of Alexandre Landry, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1835. They
remained in Lafayette Parish.

1c

Valentin Marin died near
Convent, St. James Parish, in November 1840. The priest who
recorded his burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names
or mention a wife, said that Valentin died at "age 51 yrs.," so this
probably was him. Did he marry?

2

Olivier, by his first wife, born in Acadia in
c1753, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian François
Hébert, at Ascension in February 1775. They moved to the Attakapas
District by the 1780s.

3

Joseph dit Dios, by his
first wife, born probably in Maryland in c1757, married Marie-Rose, daughter
of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Melançon, at St.-Jacques in October
1789. They moved to the Attakapas District during the 1790s.

4

Firmin, by his first wife, born probably in
Maryland in c1760, married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadian Vincent-Ephrem
Babin, at Ascension in July 1789. Their daughters married into
the Broussard, Gautreaux, and Villeneuve families. Firmin remarried to Marie-Anne,
called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon LeBlanc, at Assumption on upper
Bayou Lafourche in August 1795. Marie-Anne had come to Louisiana
aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships from France, in
1785. Their son Firmin, fils was born at Ascension in June
1798, another Firmin, fils in January 1801, and Raphaël Auguste or
Auguste Raphaël, also called Auguste Firmin,in March 1804. One of his sons settled in
St. James and another in Ascension Parish.

4a

Firmin, fils, by his
second wife, married
Tarsile, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Étienne Melançon,
at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in June 1820. Their son
Firmin III was born near Convent in July 1822 but died at age 3
in September 1825, and Louis Valière was born in October 1824 but
died at age 6 1/2 in July 1831.

4b

Raphaël Auguste, by his second wife, married cousin Adélaïde, Adeline,
or Audelitte, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Raphaël
Babin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February
1825; Adélaïde's mother was a Landry. Their son Jean
Raphaël was born in Ascension Parish in January 1832, and Pierre
Lavigne in September 1833. Their daughters married into the
Bourque,
Braud, and
Parent families. Raphaël Auguste died in Ascension
Parish in October 1837; he was only 33 years old.

5

Pierre, by his second wife,
born at Ascension in c1768, died at St.-Gabriel in March 1798. He was
only 30 years old and probably did not marry.

6

Valentin, by his second
wife, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in January 1771, married
Célestine or Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Bourgeois, at
St.-Jacques in November 1792. They followed two of his older
half-brothers to the western prairies in the 1810s.

7

Youngest son Pierre-Jean-Baptiste, by
his second wife, born at Ascension in February 1773, married
Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Braud, at
St.-Jacques in January 1797. They may have been that rare Acadian
couple who had no children.

Descendants of François
LANDRY, fils (c1741-; René le jeune, Pierre)

François, fils, elder son of
François Landry and Dorothée Bourg, born probably at Pigiguit
in c1741, was deported to Maryland with his family in 1755. He came to
Louisiana with his widowed father and a younger brother in 1766
and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married Marie-Rose, called
Rose or Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Dugas, in the early
1770s. Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of
the river at St.-Jacques in 1777. They owned a slave there in
1779. Their daughters married into the Babin, Landry, LeBlanc,
Savoie, and Simoneaux families. Their only son settled in
Ascension Parish, married twice, and had several sons of his own. One
of François's grandsons moved down into the Bayou Lafourche valley, but the
others remained on the river.

Édouard, born probably at
St.-Jacques in c1773, married cousin Henriette or Marie Élise, called
Élise or Eliza, daughter of Pierre
Landry, at Ascension in June 1796. In June 1798, Édouard and his
wife purchased from his widowed mother in Ascension 3 arpents of land near
Pierre LaBatte, on which they built "a house of posts in ground, 30'
x 15', bousillier between the posts, covered with pickets." Their son Laurent was
born at Ascension in August 1802, Félix Jean Baptiste, called Jean
Baptiste,in November
1804, Joseph Richard, also called Joseph François,in April 1807, Jean in December 1809, and
Libois Drosin or
Drosin Libois,in November 1815. Their daughters married into the
Babin and
Dugas families. Élise died in Ascension Parish in November 1822;
she was only 37 years old. Édouard remarried to Antoinette, daughter of
French Creole Louis Barbay, at the Donalsonville church, Ascension
Parish, in March 1824; Édouard was 51 years old at the time of the wedding. Édouard died in Ascension Parish in December
1825; he was only 52 years old. One of his sons settled on upper Bayou
Lafourche.

Félix Jean Baptiste, by his
first wife, married
Marie Aurore, daughter of fellow Acadian Hippolyte Braud, at the
Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in August 1826, and remarried
to Anasie, Angèle, or Aspasie Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Sylvère Breaux,
at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1830.
They settled in Ascension Parish. Their son Frumence or Joseph Félix was born in October
1830 but died at age 8 in November 1838, Joseph Édouard or
Édouard Joseph was born
in September 1833, Jean Désiré, called Désiré, in December 1835, Louis
Furcy in January 1838, Louis Philippe in August 1842, Joseph Octave,
called Octave,
in January 1846 but may have died at age 9 1/2 in September 1855, Félix Janvier
was born in September 1848 but died at age
7 in September 1855, and François
Hector was born in February 1851 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1852.
Their daughter married into the Genazzini family. Félix
Jean Baptiste died in Ascension Parish in October 1855; the
Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to
give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Jean B., as he
called him, died at "age 51 years"; Félix Jean Baptiste would have been
a few weeks shy of age 51.

Joseph Édouard, by his
second wife, married Joséphine, daughter of Jean Buquoi, at
the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in July 1855.
Their son Joseph Édouard, fils was born in Ascension Parish
in February 1860.

Désiré, by his second
wife, married Emma, daughter of Anglo American Alfred Hatkinson,
at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1867.
Their son Louis Jean was born in Ascension Parish in August
1870.

Joseph François, by his first
wife, married cousin Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, daughter of Henri Landry,
at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1836.
They remained on upper Bayou Lafourche.

Jean, by his first wife,
married cousin Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jérôme Dugas,
at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1836; they
had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order
to marry. Their daughters married into the Babin, Barbay, and Roth families.
Did Jean father any sons?

Drosin Libois, by his first wife,
married Marie Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Valéry LeBlanc and
widow of ___ Rivet, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension
Parish, in February 1841. Their son Sébastien Valéry,
called Valéry, was
born in Ascension Parish in January 1844, Joseph Edward in June
1846, Jacques Gustave in July 1848, and twin sons Alexandre
and Calixte in
October or December 1858, and Ulgere Denis in October 1861.

Valéry married Alouysia or
Alysia,
daughter of fellow Acadian Trasimond Dupuy, at the Gonzales
church, Ascension Parish, in March 1867. Their son Clément
Maurice was born near Gonzales in September 1869.

Laurent died in Ascension
Parish in November 1862. The Donaldsonville priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or mention
a wife, said that Laurent died at "age 60 years," so this probably was
him. Did he marry? If not, why not?

Descendants of Étienne LANDRY
(c1742-1780s; René le jeune, Abraham)

Étienne, third son of Abraham dit
Petit Abram
Landry and his first wife Élisabeth LeBlanc,
born probably at Pigiguit in c1742, was deported to Maryland with his family
in 1755. Colonial officials counted him and his family at Oxford, on
Maryland's Eastern Shore, in July 1763. He came to Louisiana with his
family in 1766 and settled with them at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques. He
married Brigitte, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Trahan, at
nearby Ascension in May 1776. Spanish officials counted them on the
left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension in 1777. They lived for a time at New Orleans.
Their daughter married into the Leroux and Martin (Foreign
French, not Acadian) families and settled in St. Bernard and St. Tammany
parishes. Étienne died by July 1787, when his wife remarried at
Ascension. His only surviving son settled on the
western prairies.

1

Older son Éloi, born at Ascension in
August 1779, married cousin Julienne, daughter of fellow Acadian
Paul Trahan, probably at Ascension in the late 1790s or early 1800s
and settled on the western prairies.

2

Younger son Mathurin, born at
Ascension in March 1784, died at New Orleans, age 6 1/2, in November 1790.

Descendants of Simon LANDRY
(c1744-1782?; René le jeune, Abraham)

Simon, fourth and youngest son of
Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry and his first wife Élisabeth
LeBlanc, born probably at Pigiguit in c1744, was deported to Maryland
with his family in 1755. Colonial officials counted him and his family
at Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, in July 1763. He came to
Louisiana with his family in 1766 and settled with them at
Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married fellow Acadian Anne-Marguerite,
called Marguerite, daughter
of perhaps Germain Babin, in October 1767. Spanish officials
counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabanocé in 1769 and
on the same bank of the river at nearby Ascension in 1770 and 1777.
They owned a single slave in 1777. Their daughters married into the
Babin,
Gaudin, and
Landry families. Simon may have died at Ascension in February
1782, in his late 30s. Most of his many sons created families of
their own and remained on the Acadian Coast.

1

Oldest son Cletus or Elotte,
baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in August 1770, died at Ascension,
age 2, in September 1772.

2

Simon-Béloni, called
Béloni, born probably at
Ascension in c1771, married Marie-Jeanne, called Jeanette, daughter of French Creole
Jean-Baptiste Chauvin, at Ascension in September 1793; Marie-Jeanne's
mother was a Braud. Their son Eugène was born at
Ascension in November 1793 but died at age 1 in January 1795, Robert
died 9 days after his birth in April 1806, and Jean
Baptiste Longin was born in March 1815. Their
daughters married into the Babin, Braud, Landry, and Theriot
families. Simon Béloni died in St. James Parish in March 1829; he was
58 years old.

Jean Baptiste Longin married Marie Aureline, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Théodore Babin, at the
Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in July 1836. They
settled near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes. Their son
Martiale Morille was born in July 1841,
Jules Olésime was born in May 1843, and Baptiste Gustave in
March 1845. Their daughter married into the Dugas family. Jean Baptiste Longin remarried to cousin Adélaïde,
daughter of fellow Acadian François Crochet of Assumption Parish, at the
Donaldsonville church in February 1853; Adélaïde's mother was a
Landry. Their son François Louis was born in Ascension
Parish in November 1853, Jean Franklin in February 1855, Félix Augustin
in November 1856, and Arsènes Théo in December 1860.

3

Pierre-Alexis, born at
Ascension in July 1774, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian
Sylvain LeBlanc, at Ascension in January 1795. Their son
Sylvain was born at Ascension in August 1795, Élie-Narcisse in March 1799,
and Simon le jeune, called Simonet, in June 1801. Pierre-Alexis
died at Ascension in October 1801; he was only 27 years old.

3a

Sylvain married cousin Claire
Bathilde or Mathilde, called Bathilde or Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Babin, at the Donaldson
church, Ascension Parish, in May 1820; Claire's mother was a Landry;
they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of relationship in
order to marry. Their daughter married into the Delaune
family. Sylvain died in Ascension Parish in February 1826;
he was only 30 years old. Did he father any sons?

3b

Élie Narcisse married cousin
Mélanie Geneviève, daughter of Guillaume Raphaël Landry, at the
Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in February 1822; they had to secure
a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
They lived near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes. Their son
Guillaume Sylvanie was born in January 1823, Édouard Dorsigny in September 1825, Jules
Élie in December
1827, and Laurent Rodolphe in August 1830. Mélanie died
near St. Gabriel in June 1831; she was only 27 years old. Élie
Narcisse may have remarried to Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph
LeBlanc and widow of Firmin Guidry, at the Brusly church,
West Baton Rouge Parish, in December 1841; if so, Élie Narcisse was 42
years old at the time of the wedding.

Jules Élie married Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadian
Valéry Dupuy, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish,
in May 1855. They settled near Gonzales. Their son Paul Élie
was born in December 1859, Germain Séverin in February 1862,
and Terence Mathurin in November 1869.

3c

Simonet married double cousin Bathilde Célesie,
called Célesie, daughter of Joseph Donat Landry of
Iberville Parish, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in
January 1828; Célesie's mother was a Landry. Their
son Simon George Gédéon was born in Ascension Parish in July
1830, and Acadius Augustine in January 1841. Their daughters
married Landry and LeBlanc cousins. Simonet died in
Ascension Parish in January 1767; the Donaldsonville priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or even
mention a wife, said that Simonet died at "age 65 years." Célesie
died in Ascension Parish also in January 1867, less than a week after
Simonet; she, too, was 65 years old.

4

Joseph-Simon, born at Ascension
in December 1775, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Babin, at
Ascension in September 1797. Their son Gilbert-Firmin was born
at Ascension in September 1799, Joseph Valéry in December 1809,
Pie Isidore, called
Isidore, in May 1811, Raphaël Cyprien, called Cyprien, in December 1812, Bernua
died, age unrecorded, in March 1815, Agappe Vunsul was born in
March 1816, and Simon Thiburse, called Thiburse,posthumously in March 1820. Their daughters married into the
Braud, Gaudin, Gautreaux, LeBlanc, and Villeneuve families. Joseph Simon died in
Ascension Parish in December 1819; he was only 44 years old.

4a

Isidore married Élisabeth,
daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in January 1835. Their son Thomas
Isidore was born in Ascension Parish in December 1835, Edmond
Martin in November 1837 but died at age 9 1/2 in August 1847,
Joseph Oscar, called Oscar,was born in January 1847
but died at age 8 1/2 in October 1855, Prudent Avit was born in
June 1849, and August Eugène, called Eugène,in November 1854
but died at age 10 1/2 in September 1865. Their daughter married into the Babin
family. Isidore died in Ascension Parish in September 1855; he was
only 44 years old.

4b

Cyprien married Marie
Apolline, called Apolline, daughter of François Lucenty, Lucenti,
or Lucentie, at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in January 1837; Marie's mother was a
Gautreaux. Their son James Xavier was born in Ascension
Parish in May 1847 but died at age 6 in August 1853, Aubin Alvery
was born in March 1850, and Joseph
Elphége in January 1852. Their daughters married into the
Allemand, Erris, and
Yentzen families.

4c

Gilbert Firmin died in
Ascension Parish in December 1837. He was only 38 years old and
may not have married.

4d

Thiburse married
Élizabeth, daughter of Manuel Monson or Mansan, at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in October 1855. Their son
Lucien Joseph was born in Ascension Parish in December 1856,
Simon Grégoire in May 1860, and Paul Adrien in January 1864.
.

5

Olivier, born at Ascension
in December 1777, married Angèle or Angélique,
another daughter of Sylvain LeBlanc, at Ascension in June 1797.
Their son Servant or Simon was born at Ascension in October 1803, and
Paul Onésime, called Onésime and also Olésime,in September 1805. Their daughters married into the Babin
and Villard families. Olivier remarried
to Marie, daughter of French Creole Jean Culaire, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in September 1812; Marie's mother was an Hébert.
Their son Jean was born in Ascension Parish in September 1813.
Olivier remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Adélaïde,
daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Babin and widow Alexandre Valéry
Babin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in July 1827;
Olivier
was 50 years old at the time of the wedding. Olivier died probably at his home on Bayou Corne,
Ascension Parish, in February 1832; the priest who recorded his burial said
that Olivier was 58 years old when he died, but he was only 54.

5a

Simon, by his first wife,
married cousin Anne Valerante or Valerente, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul
Babin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October
1826; Anne's mother was a Landry. Their daughter married
into the Daigre family. Did Simon father any sons?

5b

Onésime, by his first wife,
married cousin Madeleine Clothilde, perhaps also called Marie Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon
Théodore Babin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish,
in July 1827; Madeleine's mother was a Landry; they had to secure
a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
Their infant child, name and age unrecorded, perhaps a son, died in
Ascension Parish in April 1830, Onésime Roselier was born in June
1831 but died at age 4 in August 1835, Simon Théodore was born in
October 1834, and Olivier le jeune in March 1837 but died at age 15 months in June 1838.
Their daughters married into the Hébert, Richard, and
Trosclair families and perhaps
to a
Landry cousin as well. Paul
Onésime remarried to Rosalie, daughter of French Creole Ferdinand
Capdeville and widow of Norbert Neraux, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in February 1844; Rosalie's mother was a
Melançon. Their son Abraham Sylvère was born in
Ascension Parish in March 1848, and Vincent de Paul in July 1849.

Simon Théodore, by his
first wife, married Joséphine, daughter of Pierre Pellerin,
also called Tellier, at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in February 1853. Their son
Théodore Gervais was born in Ascension Parish in June 1854, and
Siméon Olivier in January 1860.

5c

Jean, by his second wife,
married Marie Elina, called Elina, daughter of André Conrad, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in April 1844. Jean, called "a native of
New River, Ascension parish," died near St. Gabriel in November 1846; he
was only 33 years old. Did his family line die with him?

6

Firmin, baptized at
Ascension, age unrecorded, in November 1779, married cousin
Henriette, another daughter of Joseph Babin, at Ascension in
October 1803. Their son Andrew Firmin, also called Odin,was born at Ascension in
September 1804 but died at age 15 in November 1819, and Marcellin was
born in April 1808 but died the following September. He and his wife
may have had no more sons; if so, this line of the family did not survive.

7

Youngest son Simon-Nicolas
or Nicolas-Simon, born at Ascension
in February 1782, married Osite, daughter of fellow Acadian Isaac LeBlanc,
at Ascension in April 1804. Their son Barthélémy Séverin was
born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in November 1812, and Emérant
in January 1817. Their daughter married a Babin cousin.
Nicolas remarried to cousin Marie Élise or Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian
Grégoire Melançon and widow of Jérôme Rivet, at the St.
Gabriel church in September 1828; Marie's mother was a Landry.
Their son Louis Simon was born in Ascension Parish in August 1831, Joseph Ferdinand
in February 1834, Vilfrid Geraud, called Geraud,in October 1837 but died
at age 2 in October 1839, and Edmond Nicolas was born in November
1842. Nicolas, while a "res. of New River at the Bluff," died in
Iberville Parish in October 1849; he was 67 years old.

7a

Joseph Ferdinand, by his
second wife, married Marie Armelise, called Armelise, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean
Valéry Braud, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in
January 1855. They lived near the boundary between Ascension and
Iberville parishes. Their son Joseph Albert was born in
November 1856, Simon B. in February 1859, François Richard in April 1863,
and twins Lucas Jean and Lucas Nicolas in June 1865.

7b

Louis Simon, by his second
wife, married double cousin Marie Sulvina, daughter of Anselme Landry,
at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in November 1855;
Marie's mother was a Landry, too. They lived near the
boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes. Their son
Alibert was born in May 1856, and Cleopha Siméon in January
1862.

7c

Edmond Nicolas, by his second
wife, married cousin Elisca, daughter of fellow Acadian Séverin Braud,
at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in January 1866; Elisca's
mother was a Landry. Their son Jean Séverin was born
near Gonzales in December 1869.

Pierre-Abraham dit Pitre,
elder son of Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry and his second
wife Marguerite Flan, born probably at Pigiguit in c1752, was
deported to Maryland with his family in 1755. Colonial officials
counted them at Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, in July 1763. He
came to Louisiana with his family in 1766 and settled with them at
Cabanocé/St.-Jacques. Pierre-Abraham dit Pitremarried Marguerite, daughter of
fellow Acadian Pierre Allain, at nearby St.-Gabriel in January 1773.
Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river at
Ascension in 1777. Their daughters married into the Gautreaux, Landry,
Mollere, and Rousseau
families. Pierre Abraham dit Pitre died at Ascension in
September 1805; he was only 53 years old. Two of his three sons
married and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.

1

Oldest son Alain, born at Ascension in
October 1778, married Eugènie, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Aucoin,
at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1808. They
remained on upper Bayou Lafourche.

2

Pierre-Augustin, born at
Ascension in July 1780, may have died young.

3

Youngest son Pierre-Grégoire,
also called Landry, born at Ascension in November 1782, married Marie Joséphine, called
Joséphine, daughter of French Creole Jacques Rousseau, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1811. They
remained
on upper Bayou Lafourche.

Joseph dit Le Cadet (called
this to distinguish him from his eldest half-brother Joseph), younger son
of Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry and his second wife
Marguerite Flan, born probably at Pigiguit in c1752, was deported to
Maryland with his family in 1755. Colonial officials counted them at
Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, in July 1763. Cadet
came to Louisiana with his family in 1766 and settled with them at
Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine,
daughter of fellow Acadian Étienne LeBlanc, in February 1778.
Cadetdied at nearby Ascension in January 1784;
he was only 27 years old. Only his oldest son seems to have married, and he settled
on upper Bayou Lafourche, where the family line continued.

1

Oldest son Joseph-Thadée, born at Ascension in March 1780, married Anastasie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Dugas, at Ascension in July 1799.
They settled on Bayou Lafourche.

2

Simon, born at Ascension in
April 1782, may have died young.

3

Youngest son Jacques-Donat,
born at Ascension in December 1783, also may have died young.

Charles, fils, son
of Charles Landry and Marie LeBlanc, born probably at Pigiguit
in c1738, was deported with his family to Maryland in 1755. Colonial
officials counted him and his younger siblings at Oxford, on Maryland's
Eastern Shore, in July 1763. He led his siblings to Louisiana in 1766
and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married cousin Marie
Landry in the late 1760s. Spanish officials counted them on the
left, or east, bank of the river at Cabanocé in 1769 and on the same side of
the river at nearby Ascension in 1770. He remarried to Marie, daughter
of fellow Acadian Germain Babin, at St.-Jacques in December 1775.
Spanish officials counted them on the east bank of the river at Ascension in
1777; they owned a slave by then. Their daughters married into
the Babin, Braud, Landry,
and Lecompte families. Charles, fils may have died at
Ascension in April 1804; he would have been 66 years old that year.
His only son remained in Ascension Parish and had many sons of his own, but
not all of them married, and not all of their lines survived. This
line of the family, in fact, may have died in the third generation.

Léger, by his second wife,
born probably at Ascension in c1783, married
cousin Anne Louise, Élise, Elisa, or Lise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph
Babin, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in October 1807.
They settled in nearby Iberville Parish. Their son Léger Valsin
or Valsin Léger was born in November 1808,
Philibert Trasimond
in April 1810, Jean Rosémond
in January 1812, Duval in October 1813, Marcellin in March
1817, Narcisse Pharon, also called Narcissus Pharas,in October 1818, Colin Suriaque in
March 1820, and Gervais Stanislas in March 1828. Their daughter
married into the Melançon family. Léger died "at
his home in Iberville parish" in November 1837; he was only 54 years old.
Despite him many sons, his line may not have survived.

Jean Rosémond died in
Ascension Parish in May 1838. He was only 25 years old and probably did
not marry.

Léger Valsin married Aspasie,
daughter of French Creole Honoré Grégoire, at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in June 1839, and remarried to
cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Eusèbe Alexandre Babin
and widow of Paul Onésime Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in
September 1842; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of
consanguinity in order to marry. Valsin Léger, as the recording
priest called him, died in Ascension Parish in October 1848; the
Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial did not bother to give
Valsin Léger's age at the time of his death, but he was a month shy of
40. Did he father any sons?

Marcellin married Victoire
Celina, Celima, or Selma, daughter of fellow Acadian Honoré Daigre, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in December 1845. Their daughter
married into the Martinez family. Marcellin remarried to
Angélique, also called Angelie, daughter of Jacques Rosémond Berret
or Perret, at the St.
Gabriel church in May 1864; Angélique's mother was a LeBlanc;
Marcellin was 47 years old at the time of the wedding.
They settled near Plaquemine, on the west side of the river. Their son Joseph Lee was born in May 1865,
a son, name and age unrecorded (perhaps Joseph Lee), may have died in
July 1867, and Rosémond Léger was born in October 1867.

Narcisse Pharon married
Marguerite Coralie, called Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon LeBlanc,
at the Donalsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1848.
They were living near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, on the west side of
the river in the early 1850s. Narcisse may have died in Iberville
Parish in September 1855; the St. Gabriel priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or even
mention a wife, said that Narcisse died at "age 32 years"; Narcisse
Pharon would have been 36. Did he father any sons?

Descendants of Jacques LANDRY
(c1743-1783; René le jeune, Abraham)

Jacques, second son of Charles
Landry and Marie LeBlanc, born probably at Pigiguit in c1743, was
deported to Maryland with his family in 1755. Colonial officials
counted him and his siblings at Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, in July
1763. He married fellow Acadian Françoise Blanchard probably in
Maryland in the mid-1760s. They followed his family to Louisiana in
1766 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where Spanish officials counted
them on the left, or east, bank of the river in 1769 and on the same side of
the river at nearby Ascension in 1770 and 1777. They owned 2 slaves in
1777. Their daughters married into the Bergeron, Duhon,and Mollere
families. Jacques died at Ascension in December 1783; he was only 40
years old. Only half of his six sons seem to have created families of
their own, and one of them had no sons.

1

Oldest son Victor, born
probably at Ascension in c1768, died at age 3 or 4 in August 1772.

2

Donat died at Ascension,
age 20 months, in September 1772.

3

Jacques, fils, born at
Ascension in January 1779, died in Ascension Parish in July 1829. He
was 50 years old and does not seem to have married.

4

Jacques- or Joseph-Désiré, called
Désiré, born at Ascension in January 1782,married Rosalie Justine
or Justine Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Marie Richard, at St.-Jacques in July
1803. Their daughters married into the Bouquet, Hamilton, and Landry
families. Désiré died in Ascension Parish in April 1823; the priest
who recorded his burial said that Désiré was 43 years old when he died, but
he was 41. Did he father any sons?

5

A second Donat, this one a
twin, born at Ascension in November 1783 a month before his father died,
married cousin Anne, also called Marie Élise or Lise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph
Melançon, at Ascension in May 1805; Marie's mother was a Landry.
They settled near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption
parishes. Their son Donat, fils died 2 days after his birth in
January 1807, Paul Onésime was born in December 1807, Ursin in
September 1808, and Joseph Valentin, called Valentin and T.
Valentin,in July 1813.
Their daughter married into the Dugas family. Donat died in
Ascension Parish in May 1836; he was only 52 years old.

Joseph Valentin married
cousin Christine Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, daughter of Auguste Hyacinthe
Landry, at the Donalsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1839.
Their son Bernard Harmon, also called Hermand Bernard,was born in Ascension Parish in May
1843, Joseph Augustin in March 1845, Eustache Vileor in March 1847,
and Vincent died at age 6 months in September 1852. Their
daughter married into the Gautreaux family. Élisabeth died
in Ascension Parish in October 1854; she was only 32 years old. Joseph
Valentin, called T. Valentin by the recording priest, remarried to
cousin Marguerite Elina, called Elina, another daughter of Auguste Hyacinthe Landry,
at the Donaldsonville church in August 1855; Joseph Valentin was 42
years old at the time of the wedding. They settled near the
boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes. Their son
Laurent Valentin was born in September 1858, Landry Elphége
in March 1859, Barthélémy Alphrede in August 1862, and
Alexandre Joseph in March 1869.

Hermand Bernard, by his
first wife, married Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadian Leufroi
Boudreaux, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in April
1870.

Eustache Vileor, by his
first wife, called Vileor E. by the recording priest, married
Louise, probably Marie Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Victorin
Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in
August 1870.

6

Victor-Martin, Donat's
twin, married cousin Anne Jeanne, called Jeanette, another daughter
of Joseph Melançon, at
the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in February 1808. Their son
Gédéon was born in Ascension Parish in December 1808, and Joseph
Ursin in January 1820. Their
daughters married into the Babin, LeBlanc, and Regauffre families.
Victor died in Ascension Parish in March 1838; he was only 54 years old.
Only his older son seems to have created a family of his own.

Gédéon married
cousin Marie Zulma, called Zulma, Melançon probably in the late 1820s.
Their son Martin was born in Ascension Parish in November 1830 but
died at age 5 months in May 1831, Joseph Joachim, called Joachim,
was born in February 1832, Joseph Dernon
or Dornon in July 1833 but died at age
13 months in August 1834, Gédéon Victor was born in November 1836 but died at age 16 months in March 1838, Joseph Valsin was born in July 1844 but died the following November,
and Joseph Privat Destival was born in August 1845 but died at
age 2 in October 1847.Gédéon died in Ascension Parish in May
1849; the Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to
give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Gédéon died at
"age 41 years." Gédéon fathered many sons, but nearly all of
them died very young. One wonders why. One of his six sons lived
long enough to marry and settle in Ascension Parish; the son also died
young, but not before fathering a son of his own.

Joseph Joachim married cousin
Marguerite Clara, called Clara, daughter of fellow Acadian Olésime Landry,
at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1850; they had to
secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
Their son Joseph Jackson was born in Ascension Parish in June 1852.
Joachim died in Ascension Parish in July 1852; the Donaldsonville
priest who recorded his burial, and who did not bother to give any
parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Joachim died at
"age 21 years," but he was only 20.

Descendants of François
LANDRY (?-1783?; René le jeune, Abraham)

François, son of Charles Landry
and Marie LeBlanc, born probably at Pigiguit, was deported
with his family to Maryland in 1755. Colonial
officials counted him and his siblings at Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern
Shore, in July 1763. He followed his siblings to Louisiana in 1766 and
settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married fellow Acadian Marie-Rose
LeBlanc in May 1768. François may have died at St.-Jacques in
1783. The priest who recorded the burial of François Landry,
"First Sergeant of Militia," did not bother to give his parents' names,
mention a wife, or even give his age at the time of his death.

Descendants of Joseph LANDRY (c1752-;
René le jeune, Abraham)

Joseph, son of Charles Landry
and Marie LeBlanc, born probably at Pigiguit in c1752, was deported
to Maryland with his family in 1755. Colonial officials counted him
and his siblings at Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, in July 1763.
He followed his older brother Jacques to Louisiana in 1766 and settled with
him at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques. Spanish officials counted him with his
brother's family on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabanocé in 1769
and on the same side of the river at Ascension in 1770. He may have
been the Joseph Landry who married first to Madeleine LeBlanc
and then to Madeleine Babin, widow of Charles Babin, at
Ascension in November 1781. One wonders if his family line survived in the Bayou
State.

Pierre, perhaps by his
second wife, baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in December 1785, may
have died young.

Jean, eldest son of Pierre dit Pierrot à
Chaques
Landry and his first wife Geneviève
Broussard, born probably at Pigiguit in c1752, was deported with his
family to Maryland in 1755. He came to Louisiana with his family
in 1766 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques. Spanish officials counted
him on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabanocé in 1769 and on the
same side of the river at Ascension in 1770 and 1777. He married
cousin Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Blanchard,
at nearby St.-Gabriel in October 1788; Marie-Josèphe's mother was a
Landry; Marie-Josèphe also was a sister of Jean's brother Jean-Baptiste's
second wife. Jean and Marie-Josèphe's daughters married into the Bercegeay, Dannequin,
Edwin, Gaudin, Hatkinson, Lavergne (French Creole,
not Acadian), LeBlanc, and Richard
families. Both of Jean's sons failed to create families of their own,
so this line of the family, except for its blood, probably did not survive.

1

Older son Toussaint, born
near St.-Gabriel in November 1789, died in Ascension Parish in October 1825.
He was only 35 years old and probably did not marry.

2

Younger son Valéry, born at
Ascension in July 1806, died in Ascension Parish in October 1822. He
was only 16 years old.

Jean-Baptiste, second son of
Pierre dit Pierrot à Chaques Landry and his first wife Geneviève
Broussard, born probably in Maryland in c1756, came to Louisiana with
his family in 1766 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques. Spanish
officials counted him on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabanocé in
1769 and on the same side of the river at Ascension in 1770 and 1777.
He married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Charles LeBlanc, at
nearby St.-Gabriel in November 1786; Marie's mother was a Landry.
Jean-Baptiste remarried to cousin Anne-Marguerite, daughter
of fellow Acadian Joseph Blanchard, at St.-Gabriel in August 1788;
Anne-Marguerite's mother was a Landry; Anne-Marguerite also was a
sister of Jean-Baptiste's brother Jean's wife. Did this family line
survive?

Jean Narcisse, by his
second wife, born in Ascension Parish in May 1808, may have died young.

Firmin LANDRY
(c1759-; René le jeune, Germain, Abraham dit
Chaques)

Firmin, third son of Pierre dit Pierrot à
Chaques
Landry and his first wife Geneviève
Broussard, born probably in Maryland in c1759, came to Louisiana with
his family in 1766 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques. Spanish
officials counted him on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabanocé in
1769 and on the same side of the river at Ascension in 1770 and 1777.
He married Françoise Sally, called Sally, daughter of Anselm Scantien
of New England, at Ascension in August 1782. They may have been that
rare Acadian couple who had no children.

Paul, fourth and youngest son of
Pierre dit Pierrot à Chaques Landry and his first wife Geneviève
Broussard, born probably in Maryland in c1762, came to Louisiana with
his family in 1766 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques. Spanish
officials counted him on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabanocé in
1769 and on the same side of the river at Ascension in 1770 and 1777.
He married Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre-Paul Hébert,
at nearby St.-Gabriel in June 1787. They settled at Ascension.
Their daughters married into the Amiraty, Bourdier, Landry and LeBlanc families.
Paul may have remarried to fellow Acadian Ludivine LeBlanc, widow of
Donat Landry of Iberville Parish, at the Donaldsonville church,
Ascension Parish, in June 1825; if so, Paul would have been 63 years old at
the time of the wedding. Paul may have died in Ascension Parish in
November 1829; the Donaldsonville priest who recorded his burial, and who
did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Paul died at "age ca. 60 yrs.," but this Paul
would have been closer to 67.

1

Oldest son Simon-Julien,
called Julien, from
his first wife, born at
Ascension in February 1794, married Rosalie Justine, called Justine, daughter of fellow
Acadian Pierre Braud, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in
May 1816. Their son Pierre Théodule was born in Ascension
Parish in June 1819, Félix Valcourt in July 1827 but died at age 13
in July 1840, and Simon Homere
was born in April 1832. Their daughters married into the Bingay
family, and perhaps into the Allen family as well. Julien died in Ascension Parish in September 1845; the
Donaldsonville priest who recorded his burial, and who did not bother to
give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Julien died at
"age 52 years," but he was only 51.

Pierre Théodule died in
Ascension Parish in October 1839. He was only 20 years old and
probably did not marry.

2

Pierre-Paul, called Paul
and also
Hippolyte Paul, from his first
wife, born at
Ascension in November 1795, married Marie Denise, called Denise, daughter of fellow Acadian
Olivier Theriot, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in
January 1823. Their son Pierre was born in Ascension
Parish in January 1828, Joseph Osémé, called Osémé,
in November 1829, and Jean died 5 days after his birth in September
1832. Their daughters married into the Hatkinson
family, and perhaps into the Cire (Creole, not Acadian) family as
well. Paul died by June 1863, when he was listed as deceased in a
son's marriage record.

2a

Joseph Osémé married
Célestine, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Martial Cabern,
Cabert,
Capbern, or Caberne, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May
1857; Célestine's mother was a Gaudet. Their son
Frédéric was born in Ascension Parish in April 1861, Osémé Kirby
in June 1863 but died at age 1 in June 1864,
Hippolyte Osémé, called
Osémé,was born in March 1866 but died at age 4 1/2 in November 1870, and Joseph George
was born in
November 1870.

2b

Pierre married cousin Émilie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Theriot, at the
Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1863; they had to
secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to
marry. Their son Louis Alcée, called Alcée, was born
in Ascension Parish in August 1864 but died at age 10 months in June
1865, Jean Fernand, called Fernand,was born in
June 1866 but died at age 4 in June 1870, Claude Prosper
was born in June 1868, and Joseph Léon in February 1870.

3

Élie-Léger or
-Lazare, by his first wife, born at Ascension in January 1804, died at age 7 years, 8 months, in September 1811.

4

Onésime, by his first wife,
born at Ascension in January 1806, married Marcelline, daughter of fellow
Acadian Urbain Braud, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in
February 1833. Did Onésime father any sons?

5

Youngest son Jean Baptiste,
by his first wife, born in Ascension Parish in June 1808, may have died
young.

Joseph dit
Belhomme, son of Joseph
Landry and his second wife Marie-Josèphe Bourg and grandson of
Alexandre Bourgdit Bellehumeur, the notary and judge of
Grand-Pré, was born probably at Grand-Pré in
c1752. He was deported with his family to Maryland in 1755. Colonial
officials counted them at Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, in July 1763.
Joseph, fils came to Louisiana with his widowed mother and three
sisters in 1766 and settled with
them at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he was called Belhomme. Spanish officials counted him alone on
the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabanocé in 1769, and with his
widowed mother on the same side of the river at nearby Ascension in 1770.
He married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Désiré
LeBlanc, at Ascension in April 1775. She gave him a son.
Joseph dit Belhomme remarried to Anne, daughter of
fellow Acadian Joseph Bujole, at Ascension in November 1779; Anne was
a sister of Joseph's sister Gertrude's husband Augustin. Joseph and
Anne's
daughters married into the Constant, Duffel, Hopkins,
LeBlanc, Pedesclaux, Poursine, and Vives families. Joseph
served as lieutenant of the Ascension company of militia in 1794, was ad
interim commandant of Acadians at Ascension from 1799 to 1803, elected to the Louisiana state Senate
from the County of Acadia in July 1812, owned New Hope
Plantation in Ascension Parish, where he grew indigo, sugar, and corn, and
was one of the largest slaveholders in Louisiana.
He also owned a retail sugar business. He died in Ascension Parish in
October 1814; he was 62 years old. According to one source, he was
paid high tribute by the church; a mausoleum was dedicated to him and his
family at the Church of the Ascension in Donaldson, today's Donaldsonville. His sons
became major sugar planters in Ascension and St. James parishes, and,
following in his father's political footsteps, youngest son Trasimond
served as lieutenant governor of Louisiana during the late 1840s.
Several of his grandsons married first cousins. One grandson
lived in Missouri. Another grandson commanded the famous
Donaldsonville Artillery, an old militia company which, as volunteers, fought under General R. E. Lee during the
War of 1861.

1

Oldest son Louis, by his first wife,
born at Ascension in May 1776, described by the recording priest
as a "soldier of the militia," married Marguerite-Carmelite,
called Carmelite, daughter of Jean
Vives of Spain, at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche in January
1803; Carmelite's mother, also, was a Bujole, and Carmelite was
Louis's stepmother's sister. Louis and Carmelite's son Onésime Théodule
was born in Ascension Parish in May 1809, Achille Édouard in April
1812 but died at age 7 in April 1819, and Joseph
Théodule was born in c1814. Their daughters married into the Corvaisier,
Dugas, Gaudet, Gourrier, Landry, Morrison, and Templet families. Louis remarried to French Creole Clémence
Lessard, widow of Butler Gilbert, at the Donaldsonville church,
Ascension Parish, in January 1824; Louis was 47 years old at the time of the
wedding. Their son
Louis Lessard was born in Ascension Parish in December 1824, and
Joseph Homere, perhaps called Homere,in September 1827 but was not baptized until March 1834. Louis died in Ascension Parish in
June 1831; the priest who recorded his burial said that Louis was 60 years
old when he died, but he was "only" 55; the priest also said that Louis's
mother was Anne Bujol, but his date of birth suggests that his mother
was his father's first wife, Élisabeth LeBlanc. Only one of his
sons may have carried on the family line.

1a

Joseph Théodule, by his first
wife, while a "res. of Perry County, Missouri," married first cousin
Marie Manette, daughter of his uncle Valéry Landry, at the
Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1846; they had to
secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to
marry. Joseph Théodule died in Ascension Parish in August 1849; he
was only 35 years old. Did he father any sons?

1b

Louis Lessard, by his second
wife, married cousin Delia, daughter of his first cousin Achille
Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in September
1852; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of
consanguinity in order to marry. Louis Lessard died in Ascension
Parish in February 1853; the Donaldsonville priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not bother to given any parents' names or even
mention a wife, did not give Louis Lessard's age at the time of his
death, only his name; Louis Lessard would have been only 28. Did
he father any sons?

1e

Joseph Homere, by his second
wife, may have married Emilia or Amelia
Chestnut, Chesnot, or
Cesnet and settled near the boundary
between Ascension and St. James parishes. Their son Julien Omere was born in December 1854,
and Alexandre in September 1860 but died at age 9 1/2 in April 1870.

2

Achille-Toussaint, called
Toussaint, from his
second wife, born at Ascension in November 1784, married Marie Modeste,
called Modeste, daughter
of fellow Acadian Amand Braud, at St.-Jacques in August 1806.
Their son Joseph was born in Ascension Parish in July 1807, Joseph Achille,
called Achille, near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in February 1809, Francois Amédée,
called Amédée,in November 1809,
Pierre Théodule, called Théodule,in December 1814, and Joseph Gustave in December 1818. Their daughters married
into the Beaman, Martin (Foreign French, not Acadian) and Turnillon families. Achille Toussaint died in
Ascension Parish in November 1823; he was only 39 years old. His widow
remarried to Achille's younger brother Jean Trasimond.

2a

Joseph married first cousin
Marie Edelvina or Ethelvina, daughter of his uncle Narcisse Landry, at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in June 1827; they had to secure a
dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
Their son Pierre was born in Ascension Parish in January 1831, Lazare St. Jacques,
also called Lazare Louis Jacques and L. St. James,in December 1833, Louis Aubrey near Convent, St. James Parish,
in June 1836, and Pierre Armand, called Armand,in October 1837
but died at age 6 in October 1843. Marie Ethelvina died in
Ascension Parish in November 1844; the Donaldsonville priest who
recorded her burial said that she died at "age 36 yrs., 11 months," a
widow. One wonders when Joseph died.

Lazare St. Jacques
married cousin M. Mélanie, called Mélanie, daughter of Jean Baptiste Noël Jourdan,
at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in January 1859; they had
to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order
to marry. Their son Joseph Alfred was born near Convent
in March 1861, Joseph St. Jacques in July 1862, Joseph
Pierre Louis in March 1866, and Joseph Denis Albert in
October 1867. During the War Between the States, Lazare St.
Jacques, called
L. St. James in the Confederate record, served as a private in
two Louisiana artillery units that fought in Kentucky, Missouri,
Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. He enlisted in
the hard-fought Watson Battery at Corinth, Mississippi, in June
1862, several weeks after the unit had seen action at the Battle of
Shiloh, Tennessee, in April; he was 28 years old at the time of his
enlistment and the father of two sons, the youngest of whom had been
born less than two months before he enlisted. Lazare St.
Jacques followed his unit back to Louisiana and was captured and
paroled with them at Port Hudson, Louisiana, in July 1863. He
and his fellow gunners waited for exchange in a parolee camp at
Enterprise, Mississippi. While waiting for exchange, Lazare
must have found time to visit his family in St. James Parish in the
fall of 1863; daughter Marie Agnès was born near Convent in June
1864. In late 1863, Confederate authorities de-commissioned
the Watson Battery, and most of the men served in a Mississippi
battery. Lazare St. Jacques, however, enlisted in another
Louisiana unit, Holmes's Battery, which was organized at Clinton,
Louisiana, in March 1864. The battery saw action at Woodville,
Mississippi, in October 1864. Captain Holmes and many of his
gunners were captured in the fight; nonetheless, a superior officer
described Holmes's unit as "the most efficient arm of the
[artillery] service" in the region. Lazare St. Jacques
evidently was among the unit's gunners who escaped capture, and he
likely served for a time in Bradford's Mississippi Battery. In
early 1865, the remnants of Holmes's Louisiana Battery, including
Lazare St. Jacques, was assigned to the fortifications at Mobile,
Alabama, where they manned the guns in Battery Missouri. In
March 1865, Lazare St. Jacques was assigned temporarily to
department headquarters at Mobile. He and his fellow
Confederates evacuated the city in April 1865 and surrendered with
other Confederate forces under Lieutenant General Richard Taylor at
Meridian, Mississippi, in May 1865. As the birth of his third
son attests, Lazare St. Jacques returned to his family and resumed
his life in St. James Parish.

2b

Achille married
Marie Gertrude, called Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Blanchard,
at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in October 1831. They
settled near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes. Their son
Joseph Trouard was born in February 1838 but died at age 2 1/2 in
July 1840.
Their daughters married into the Degelos, Landry, and
Lessarde
families. Achille remarried to Anne Marie Aureline, Aurelie, or Azeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi
Blanchard, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1843. They
also settled near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes. Their
son Jean Ovide, called Ovide, was born in December 1843
but died at age 11 1/2 in July 1855, and Elphége Éloi Toussaint
was born in February 1845 but died at age 10 1/2 in October 1855.
Achille died in Ascension Parish in April 1870; the Donaldsonville
priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any
parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Achille died at "age 62
years," but he was only 61.

2c

François Amédée married first cousin
Marie Anne Emma, called Emma, another daughter of his uncle Narcisse Landry,
at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in August 1834; they,
too, had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in
order to marry.
Their son Joseph Octave was born in Ascension Parish in June
1835, and Amédée Louis in August 1841. François Amédée,
while "domiciled in New Orleans," remarried to Marie Louise, daughter of
fellow Acadian Evariste Mire of St. James Parish, at the St.
James church, St. James Parish, in January 1848. Their son
Evariste Amédée was born in St. James Parish in March 1850.

2d

Pierre Théodule married Marie
Alvina, daughter of fellow Acadian Eugène Gaudet, in a civil
ceremony in Mississippi in September 1841, and sanctified the marriage
at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, the following day.
They lived near the boundary between Ascension and St. James parishes. Their son Théodule Eugène
was born in March 1843, Nicholas Siméon in January
1847 but died the following August, and Joseph Armand, called
Armand, was born in
May 1852 but died at age 6 1/2 in October 1858. Pierre Théodule
remarried to Marie Louise, daughter of Napoléon Dupont, at the
Convent church, St. James Parish, in February 1866; Marie's mother was a
Dupuis.

2e

Joseph Gustave married cousin
Rosalie Elisca, daughter of fellow Acadian Evariste Mire, at the
St. James church, St. James Parish, in April 1844; they had to secure a
dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
Their son Augustin Gustave, also called Gustave Achille,was born in Ascension Parish in October 1846 but died at age 6 in
November 1852.

3

Philippe-Ursin, called
Ursin, from his
second wife, born probably at Ascension in May 1785 and baptized at New Orleans in December 1789,
married Marie Clémence, called Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadian Grégoire LeBlanc,
at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in May 1810. Their son
Joseph Jules, called
Jules, was born in Ascension Parish in February 1811, Ursin, fils
in October 1817 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1819, Joseph
Philippe Adolph was born in August 1819, and Philippe Ursin, fils,
perhaps called Ursin,in January
1823. Their daughters married into the Boucherou and Butterly families.
Ursin died in Ascension Parish in June 1831; the priest who recorded his
burial said that Ursin was 44 years old when he died, but he was 46.

3a

Joseph Jules married Marie
Éloise, called Éloise, daughter of French Creole Jean Louis Picou,
at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1830, and remarried to cousin Marie Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadian
Joseph Blanchard, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1837;
Marie Aimée's mother, also, was a LeBlanc. Their daughter married
a LeBlanc cousin. J. Jules, as the
recording priest called him, remarried again--his third marriage--to
cousin Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Rosémond LeBlanc and
widow of Edmond Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in April
1848. Joseph Jules died in Ascension Parish in January 1870; the
Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to
give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Jules died at
"age 59 years"; Joseph Jules would have been a month shy of that age.

3b

Philippe Ursin, fils
may have married Emma
Marguerite or Marguerite Emma St. Martin at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish,
in March 1853. Their son Joseph Atanas was born in Ascension
Parish in December 1853, Paul Cleopha in September 1855, Jean Edgar in November 1857
but died at age 8 in February 1866, Pierre L. was born in March
1864, and Joseph Théodule Ursin, called Théodule,in March 1866
but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1868.

4

Joseph-Narcisse,called
Narcisse, from his second wife, baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded,
in October 1786, married cousin Marie Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of fellow
Acadian Firmin Blanchard, at Ascension
in February 1807; Henriette's mother, also, was a Bujole. Their
son Narcisse Joseph, fils was born in Ascension Parish in February
1816 but died at age 3 years, 2 months, in March 1819, Joseph Aristide
or Aristide Joseph was born in July 1817, Joseph Narcisse, called Narcisse, in
July 1821 but died at age 1 in September 1822, and Joseph Hercules
was born in October 1826 but died at age 4 1/2 months the following March. Their daughters
married into the Braud, Landry, and Vives families.
Narcisse remarried to Marie Géralde or Gérade, daughter of French Creole Joseph
Comes and widow of Auguste Jacques Dubor, at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in June 1829; Narcisse was in his early 40s at the
time of the wedding. Their
son Vincent de Paul was baptized at the Donaldsonville church, age
unrecorded, in November 1831 but died at age "several months" the following
January, and Hercule Pierre or Pierre Hercule was born in June 1833 but died at age 9 months in April
1834. Their daughter married into the Comstock family.
Joseph Narcisse died in Ascension Parish in March 1870; the Donaldsonville
priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents'
names or even mention a wife, said that Joseph Narcisse died at "age 83
years."

Joseph Aristide, by his first
wife, married first
cousin Anne Estelle, daughter of his uncle Louis Landry, at the
Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in August 1838; they had to
secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to
marry. Their son Louis Aristide was born in Ascension
Parish in July 1840. Anne Estelle died in Ascension Parish in September 1843;
she was only 24 years old. Joseph Aristide remarried to another first cousin, Marie
Anne Nesida, Nisida, or Nizida, perhaps also called Irma, daughter of his uncle Trasimond Landry, at the
Donaldsonville church in February 1847; they, too, had to secure a
dispensation for second degree of consanguinity. Their son
Joseph Trasimond was born in Ascension Parish in March 1848,
Joseph Samuel in February 1855,
Joseph Laurant in June 1857 but died at age 15 days, and Édouard
Fernand was born in December 1858.

Louis Aristide, by his
first wife, married cousin Augustine, daughter of fellow Acadian
Léon LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish,
in June 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for third and fourth
degrees of consanguinity in order to marry. Their son Louis,
fils was born in Ascension Parish in April 1867, Joseph Raymond
in January 1869, and Henry Robert
in July 1870.

5

Isidore-Valéry, called
Valéry, from his
second wife, born at Ascension in April 1790, married Félicité Désirée,
called Désirée, daughter of French Creole Jean Renaud or Reynaud of New Orleans, at the
Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in August 1815. Valéry became a
"sugar maker." His and Désirée's son Philippe L.,
also called Phillip, was born in Ascension
Parish in February 1821, Reynaud Jacques Prosper, called R.
Prosper, in March 1826, Louis Valéry
in September 1827, Casimir Octave in August 1829
but died at age 1 in August 1830, and Joseph Reynaud was born in July
1834 but died at age 2 1/2 in January 1837.
Their daughters married into the Duffel, Eaton, Landry,
Peck, and Reynaud families. Valéry died in Ascension
Parish in September 1863; he was 73 years old.

5a

Philippe married first
cousin Marguerite or Marie Narcissa Estelle, called Estelle, daughter of Spanish Creole Pierre Pedesclaux,
at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May 1847;
Estelle's mother was Philippe's paternal aunt, Marie Arthémise
Landry, so he and Estelle had to secure a dispensation for second degree of
consanguinity in order to marry. Their son Philippe Edgar,
called Edgar,was born in Ascension Parish in October 1848
but died at age 3 in September 1851, a son, name unrecorded, died the
day of his birth in August 1849, Joseph Charles was born in April
1851, Joseph Egard in August 1854, Phillip, fils in
April 1857, a child, name and age unrecorded, perhaps a son, died in
May 1858, Georges was born in June 1858, twins sons Félix
and Jean in February
1861 but Jean died a day after his birth and Félix at age 18 days, and Charles
was born in August 1862.

5b

Louis Valéry died in Ascension
Parish in December 1850. The Donaldsonville priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or mention
a wife, said that Louis Vallery, as he called him, died at "age 23
years," so this was him. He probably did not marry.

5c

R. Prosper married first
cousin Adèle, another daughter of Pierre Pedesclaux, at the
Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1855; they had to
secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to
marry. Their son Charles W. was born in Ascension
Parish in June 1862, nine months after his father joined the Confederate
army.
R. Prosper served in the famous Donaldsonville Artillery, raised in
Ascension Parish, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and
Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers. Prosper
enlisted as a second lieutenant in September 186, at age 35, and was promoted to
captain and battery commander in July 1864. The following April,
he surrendered with his unit, and Lee's army, at Appomattox Courthouse,
Virginia, and returned to Ascension Parish.

6

Youngest son Jean-Trasimond,
called Trasimond, fromhis second wife, born at Ascension in December 1795,
served as a second lieutenant in the Seventh Regiment Louisiana Militia
during the War of 1812. He was appointed
paymaster of Sixth Regiment Ascension Parish Militia in May 1814 and
commanded a militia company in December 1814, when he was only 19. In
March 1815, after the Battle of New Orleans, he joined St. Martin's Company
Militia at Camp Hopkins on Bayou Lafourche. In January 1817, two and a
half years after his father's death, he helped form a family partnership to
manage his father's plantation, New Hope, a share of which he acquired in
March 1821. Not yet age 30, he was elected to the Louisiana House of
Representatives in July 1824 and served until his resignation in 1831.
He married Marie Modeste,
called Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Braud and widow of older brother Achille,
at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in
August 1825.
Their son Jean Trasimond, fils was born in Ascension Parish in
March 1831, and Samuel Joseph in October 1832. Their daughters
married into the Landry and
Pedesclaux families. Trasimond served as a delegate to the
Democratic national conventions of 1828 and 1836. In 1833, he was
appointed to solicit subscriptions to the Citizen's Bank of New Orleans.
He was elected to the Louisiana state senate in 1832 and became the state's
lieutenant governor in 1846. He was, in fact, the first lieutenant
governor in Louisiana state
history, and served as a Whig. During the War of 1861, while in his late 60s, he
served as a colonel in the Louisiana state militia. Trasimond died in
Ascension Parish in October 1873; he was 78 years old; he was buried in the
Ascension church cemetery, Donaldsonville.

6a

Samuel Joseph died in
Ascension Parish in November 1854. The Donaldsonville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names
or mention a wife, said that Samuel died at "age 22 years." One
wonders if he married.

6b

Jean Trasimond, fils
married Amelie, Émelia, or Emilia Elizabeth, called Elizabeth, daughter of Adolphe Seghers or
Segers of
Ascension Parish, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in May
1855. Their son Robert Boyd Lee was born in Ascension
Parish in September 1863, and George Beaman near Baton Rouge in
March 1866.

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The second contingent of
Landrys from Maryland--40 more members of the family--reached New
Orleans via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in July 1767; they were the largest
Acadian family group to come to Louisiana that year and one of the largest
single
Acadian family groups to reach the colony. Like the 1766
arrivals, these Landrys were from the Minas Basin
and had
been deported to Maryland in
the fall of 1755. They would have
preferred to join their many relatives and fellow exiles at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, but
Spanish governor Ulloa insisted that they settle in a new Acadian community,
St.-Gabriel d'Iberville, on the river above Cabanocé and Ascension.
Communication between St.-Gabriel and the Acadian settlements below was easy via the river, so this second
contingent of Maryland arrivals acquiesced into going there, adding
substantially to the number of Landrys on the Acadian Coast.

Jean-Baptiste Landry of
Pigiguit, age 57, a widower, came with five children, Marguerite, age 30,
Marie-Madeleine, age 20, Marie-Rose, called Rose, age 18, Jean-Athanase, age 16, and
Marie-Perpétué, age 13.
Jean-Baptiste did not remarry. His daughters married into the
Breaux, Landry, and Richard families and remained at
St.-Gabriel. Jean-Baptiste died before February 1777, when he was
listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record. Daughter Rose died
near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in August 1821, in her early 70s.
Son Jean-Athanase moved on to Ascension and upper Bayou Lafourche.

Hyacinthe Landry, age 24,
Jean-Baptiste's older son, came with wife Marguerite Landry, also age 24, and no children. They remained at
St.-Gabriel, where their children were born.

Anne Flan of Port-Royal,
age 56, widow of Alexandre Landry, came with six children--Anselme,
age 38, still a bachelor, Paul-Marie, age 23, Firmin, age 19, Marie-Marguerite,
called Marguerite, age 16, Jean, age 14, and Anne, age 12. A daughter
named Josèphe, who would have been age 20 in 1767, also may have come with
them. They remained at St.-Gabriel.
Daughter Anne married into the Richard family. Marguerite
married into the LeBlanc family and died a widow at St. Gabriel,
Iberville Parish, in April 1814, in her early 60s.

Augustin Landry, "père,"
of Pigiguit, age 48, came with second wife Marie-Madeleine Babin, age
49, and six children--Marie, age 20, Joseph-Marie, age 19, Joseph-Ignace,
called Ignace, age 14, Mathurin, age 12, Marguerite, age 5, and Madeleine, age 3.
They remained at St.-Gabriel and had no more children. Augustin died
at St.-Gabriel in May 1781, age 62. Daughter Marguerite married into
the LeBlanc family and, like her brothers, settled at St.-Gabriel,
where she died in July 1834, in her early 70s.
Daughter Madeleine may also have married into the LeBlanc family and
settled at St.-Gabriel, where she may have died in June 1786, in her early
20s.

Judith-Marguerite Landry,
age 40, came with husband Jean-Charles LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, age 53,
and five children, ages 15 to 1. They remained at St.-Gabriel.

Marie Landry, age 38, widow
of Alexis Granger, came with her 10-year-old daughter, her unmarried sister Élisabeth, or Isabelle, age 33,
and her brother Pierre, age 30, also unmarried. Marie remarried to Joseph, son of fellow Acadian Pierre
Sonnier of Petitcoudiac, at nearby Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in November 1767
and settled at St.-Jacques, where she had another daughter. Marie died
at St.-Jacques before January 1777, when her husband was listed in a census
without a wife. Sister Élisabeth remained at St.-Gabriel, where she
married twice, first to Étienne, fils,son of fellow Acadian Étienne Rivet
and widower of Claire Foret, in June or July 1774, and then to
distant cousin Augustin, son of Joseph Landry and widower of Marie
Foret, in August 1786. Brother Pierre died at St.-Gabriel in
April 1780; he was only 43 years old; he probably did not marry.

Jean Landry, age 23, came
with wife Ursule Landry, age 30, daughter Élisabeth or Isabelle, age
11, brother-in-law Joseph Landry, age 24, and orphan Marie ____,
age 4 1/2. They remained on the river. Joseph
may have settled at nearby Ascension.

Rose-Osite, called Osite, Landry of Minas,
age 32, came with husband Joseph Castille of Menorca, Spain, and four
children, ages 14 to 4. They moved to the Attakapas District in the
1770s.

Élisabeth, or Isabelle, Landry,
age 30, came with husband Mathurin Richard of Pigiguit, age 25, and
no children. They moved to the Opelousas District in the 1770s.

Marie-Josèphe Landry, age
29, came with husband Joseph Blanchard of Grand-Pré, age 38, and
three children, ages 9, 5, and 1. Marie-Josèphe remarried to Ignace,
son of fellow Acadian Dominique Babin and widower of Marguerite
Boudreaux, at nearby St.-Jacques in February 1778. Soon after
their marriage, they moved to the Attakapas District and settled at Grand
Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion.

Anne Landry, age 27, came
with husband Alexandre Hébert of Grand-Pré, age 31, and no children.
They remained at St.-Gabriel but had no children. Anne died there in
October 1788; the priest who recorded her burial said that she was 46 years
old when she died.

Another Anne Landry, also
age 27, came with husband Joseph Hébert, age 27, and an infant
daughter. They remained at St.-Gabriel, where Anne died a widow in September
1802; she was 62 years old.

François-Sébastien Landry,
age 26, came with wife Marguerite LeBlanc, age 23, and two
daughters--Rose, or Rosalie, age 3, and infant Isabelle. They had more
children in Louisiana and moved to upper Bayou Lafourche.

Athanase Landry, age 25,
came with wife Marie-Madeleine Hébert, age 24, and no children.
They remained at St.-Gabriel, where their children were born.

Marie-Josèphe Landry, age
25, came alone. She married cousin Pierre dit La
Vielliarde, son of Pierre Landry and widower of Élisabeth Dupuis,
at St.-Gabriel in November 1767 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.

Marie-Claire Landry, age
22, came with husband Amand Hébert of Grand-Pré, age 27, and no
children. They remained at St.-Gabriel, where Marie-Claire died by
Marcy 1777, when her husband was listed in a St.-Gabriel census as a
widower.

Descendants of Jean LANDRY
(c1732-; René le jeune, Germain)

Jean, son of Abraham dit
Chaques Landry and Marie-Isabelle Blanchard, born probably at
Pigiguit in c1732, was deported to Maryland in 1755, where he married
cousin Ursule, daughter of Pierre Landry, in c1755. Colonial officials counted
them at Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, in July 1763. They came
to Louisiana with a daughter, her brother, and a young orphan in 1767 and
settled near St.-Gabriel. Their daughter married into the Melançon
family. Jean may have fathered no sons, at least none who
established families of their own. If so, this line of the family,
except for its blood, would have died with him.

Pierre LANDRY, fils (c1737-1780; René le jeune, Germain)

Pierre, fils, elder son of
Pierre Landry and Claire Babin, born probably at Minas in
c1737, was deported with his family to Maryland in 1755. Colonial
officials counted him with his siblings at Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern
Shore, in July 1763. He came to Louisiana with two sisters and a niece
in 1767 and settled near St.-Gabriel. He died near St.-Gabriel in April 1780, age 43.
He probably never married.

Descendants of Athanase
LANDRY (c1742-?; René le jeune, Germain)

Athanase, younger son of Pierre
Landry and Claire Babin, born probably at Minas in c1742, was
deported with his family to Maryland in 1755. Colonial officials
counted him with his siblings at Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, in
July 1763. He married fellow Acadian Marie-Madeleine, called
Madeleine, Hébert in Maryland in the mid-1760s. They came to
Louisiana in 1767 with no children and settled at St.-Gabriel, where their
children were born. Spanish
officials counted them on the "left bank ascending" at St.-Gabriel in 1777.
Their daughters married into the Melançon and Robichaux
families.

1

Oldest son Denis,
born near St.-Gabriel
in March 1774, married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand
Melançon, probably at St.-Gabriel in the 1790s. They settled along Bayou Plaquemine on the west side of the river. Their twin sons
François and Magloire were born in June 1802, Élie in September 1807,
and Ursin in July 1815 but died at age 7 (the St. Gabriel priest said
9) in July 1822.
Their daughters married into the Bruneau, Devillier, and Truxillo
families. Denis died probably at his home on Bayou Plaquemine in
January 1835; he was 60 years old. Except for its blood, did this
family line survive?

2

Joseph-Donat, called
Donat, born probably near
St.-Gabriel in the mid-1770s, married
cousin Angèle, daughter of Charles Landry, at
Ascension in January 1796. Their daughters married into the Babin,
Harrison,
Landry, and LeBlanc
families. Angèle died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in July 1815;
she was only 37 years old. Donat remarried to cousin Marie Luce, daughter of
fellow Acadian Pierre LeBlanc and widow of Joseph LeBlanc, at
the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in August 1816; Marie Luce's mother
was a Landry. Donat may have fathered no sons by either of his
wives.

3

Joseph, born near St.-Gabriel
in September 1777, died at age 7 in July 1784.

4

Youngest son Jérôme-Louis,
born near St.-Gabriel in July 1781, also may have died young.

Descendants of Anselme LANDRY
(c1738-?; René le jeune, Abraham)

Anselme, eldest son of Alexandre
Landry, fils and Anne Flan, born at Minas in c1738, was deported
with his family to Maryland in 1755. Colonial officials counted him
with his widowed mother and siblings at Baltimore in July 1763. He
came to Louisiana probably in 1767 with his family and settled at
St.-Gabriel, where he married cousin Marie-Madeleine, daughter of
Jean-Baptiste Landry of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in April 1769, and
remarried to cousin Osite, perhaps also called Agathe, Landry
probably at St.-Gabriel in the early 1770s. Spanish officials counted
them on the "right bank ascending" at St-Gabriel in 1777. Anselme's daughters may have married into the Babin, Binfrede,
Breaux, and Landry
families. Two of his three sons married and settled at St.-Gabriel and
Ascension, but neither of their lines, except for the blood, seems to have survived.

1

Oldest son Anselme-Bénoni,
called Bénoni, from his first wife, baptized at St.-Gabriel, age
unrecorded, in June 1770, died at Ascension in February 1789. He was
only 18 years old and probably did not marry.

2

Joseph-Eusèbe, called
Eusèbe, by his second wife, born near St.-Gabriel in March 1774,married Constance,
daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Babin, at Ascension in February
1795. Their daughter married a Landry cousin. Did Eusèbe
father any sons?

3

Youngest son Pierre Anselme, by his second wife,
born probably near St.-Gabriel in the mid-1770s, married Renée,
daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Gaudin, at Ascension in April
1802. Their son Pierre Drosin, called Drosin,was born near St. Gabriel,
Iberville Parish, in September 1812. Their daughters married into the
Hébert and
Lavergne (French Creole, not Acadian) families. Pierre
Anselme died in Iberville Parish in August 1850; the St. Gabriel priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
even mention a wife, said that Pierre Anselme died at "age 77 years."

Drosin, a "single person," died
in Iberville Parish in September 1858. The St. Gabriel priest who
recorded the burial said that Drauzin, as he called him, died at "age 45
years," but he was 46. His line of the family, except for its
blood, died with him.

Paul-Marie, second son of
Alexandre Landry, fils and Anne Flan, born at Minas in c1744, was
deported with his family to Maryland in 1755. Colonial officials
counted him with his widowed mother and siblings at Baltimore in July 1763.
He came to Louisiana with his family in 1767 and settled at St.-Gabriel.
He married Brigitte, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Babin, at nearby
Ascension in February 1772. Spanish officials counted them on the
"left bank ascending" at St.-Gabriel in 1777; they owned 12 head
of cattle, 10 hogs, and 18 fowl on their 6 arpents of frontage on the river. Their daughters
married into the Babin, Braud, and Gallagher families.
He may have been the Paul Landry
who died at St.-Gabriel in November 1794; if so, he would have
been only 50 years old when he died.

1

Oldest son Jean, born near
St.-Gabriel in October 1772, moved to the Attakapas District, where he died
in December 1803. The priest who recorded his burial said that Jean
was 28 years old when he died, but he was 31. He probably did not
marry.

2

Grégoire, born at Ascension
in December 1775, died near St.-Gabriel in August 1799. He was only 23
years old and probably did not marry.

3

Hippolyte, born probably
near
St.-Gabriel in c1777, married
Marie Scholastique, called Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Hébert, at
the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in November 1807. Their twin sons Jean and Joseph Hippolyte
were born near St. Gabriel in October 1808 but Joseph Hippolyte died at age 6 in August 1814,
and Joseph Thomasin, called Thomasin,was born in August 1812. Hippolyte died near St. Gabriel in
January 1815; he was only 38 years old.

Joseph Thomasin married Iréné,
Adeline, Lucie, or Lucille Virginie, called Virginie, daughter of French Creole Joseph Capdeville, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in September 1834; Virginie's mother was
an Henry. They lived near the boundary between Iberville and
Ascension parishes. Their son Joseph Thomasin, fils was born
in June 1835, Hippolyte Martin in February 1837, Jean Baptiste Théophile
in January 1839, Joseph Martinien Neve or Neré, called Neré, inFebruary 1844,
François Alcée, called
Alcée, in September 1850 but died at age 14 1/2 in August 1865, and Pierre
was born in January 1856 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1857.

Neré married Aimée,
daughter of André Vegue, at the Donaldsonville church,
Ascension Parish, in February 1867. Their son Joseph Ernest
was born in Ascension Parish in October 1868.

Hippolyte Martin married
Léonise, daughter of French Canadian Melisé LeBlanc of
Assumption Parish, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish,
in April 1868. Their son Hippolyte Albert or Albert
Hippolyte died in Ascension Parish, age 4 days, in June 1869.

4

Paul-Antoine, baptized at
St.-Gabriel, age unrecorded, in 1780, may have died young.

5

Joseph, born near St.-Gabriel
in February 1786, married Rosalie, daughter of Anglo American Ignace
Hamilton, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February
1813. Their son Louis Dorval or Erville was born
probably near St. Gabriel in the early 1810s. Their daughter married a Landry cousin.
Joseph remarried to fellow Acadian Élise LeBlanc, widow of Louis
Deshonnet, and died near St. Gabriel in January 1840; the St. Gabriel
priest who recorded his burial said that Joseph died at "age 54 years."

Louis Dorval married Jeanne
Elina, daughter of French Creole Armand Robert, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in January 1836, and remarried to Modeste
Adeline, daughter of French Creole Joseph Capdeville, at the
Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in September 1838; Modeste's
mother was an Henry.

6

Blaise, born at
Ascension or St.-Gabriel in c1791, died at St.-Gabriel, age 8, in March 1800.

7

Jean-Baptiste, born near
St.-Gabriel in January 1792, may have died young.

8

Youngest son Augustin, born
near St.-Gabriel in July 1794, also may have died young.

Descendants of Firmin LANDRY
(c1748-1792; René le jeune, Abraham)

Firmin, third son of Alexandre
Landry, fils and Anne Flan, born at Minas in c1748, was deported with
his family to Maryland in 1755. Colonial officials counted him with
his widowed mother and siblings at Baltimore in July 1763. He came to
Louisiana in 1767 with his family and settled at St.-Gabriel. He
married fellow Acadian Marie LeBlanc probably at St.-Gabriel in the
late 1760s. Their daughter married into the LeBlanc family.
Firmin remarried to Louise-Ludivine, called Ludivine or Divine, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Babin,
at nearby Ascension in February 1774. Spanish officials counted them
on the "right bank ascending" at St.-Gabriel in 1777; they owned a single
slave by then. Their daughters married into the Allain, Brasseaux,
Hébert, and Vives
families. Firmin remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Hélène,
daughter of Anglo American Joseph Hamilton and a widow, at St.-Gabriel in February
1792. Firmin died at St.-Gabriel in September 1792; he was only 44
years old. His youngest son was born the following November.

1

Oldest son Hippolyte, by
his second wife, born probably near St.-Gabriel in c1770, married cousin
Marie Marguerite,
called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Richard, at
St.-Gabriel in October 1795; Marguerite's mother was a Landry; they had to secure a
dispensation for second degree of relationship in order to marry.
Their son Achille was born near St.-Gabriel in December 1801,
Jean Hippolyte Labiere in August 1804, twins Fostin and
Sosthène in April 1806, and Hippolyte Thomas, called Thomas,in March 1818.
Their daughters married into the Braud, Dupuis, and Viel families.
Hippolyte died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1820; he was
only 50 years old.

1a

Achille married Arthémise,
daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in November 1824, and remarried to
cousin Béatrice, daughter of fellow Acadian Abraham Hébert,
at the St. Gabriel church in January 1828; Béatrice's mother was a
Landry. Their newborn infant, name unrecorded,
perhaps a son, died near St. Gabriel in October 1828, and another newborn infant,
name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died in November 1829. Achille may
have died near St. Gabriel in March 1830; if so, he would have been only
28 years old. His line of the family may have died with him.

1b

Fostin, called Faustin by the
recording priest, died near St. Gabriel in October 1831. He was
only 25 years old and probably did not marry.

1c

Thomas died at the home of his
brother-in-law, Eugène Braud, near St. Gabriel in November
1835. Thomas was only 17 1/2 years old when he died.

2

Firmin-Paul, by
his second wife, born at Ascension in January 1775, may have died at New
Orleans in January 1803. The priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, said that Fermin,
as he called him, was "native of Maryland in the United States of America"
and died at "cir. 32 yr.," but Firmin-Paul would have
been only 28 that year. He probably did
not marry.

3

Pierre-Ferdinand, called
Ferdinand, from his second
wife, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in March 1777, married
cousin Clarisse, daughter of Paul Landry, at Ascension in
November 1805. Their son Pierre Paul was born in Ascension
Parish in December 1808 but died at age 2 years, 9 months, in September
1811, Ferdinand Colin was born in October 1812 but died at age 5 in September 1817,
Valmon was born near Baton Rouge in December 1814, Trasimond Sefranis
or Dufrois
was baptized at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, age unrecorded, in
April 1817, Jean Auguste
Rosémond, perhaps called Rosémond,was born in May 1821, and Philippe Ferdinand in August
1828. Their daughters married into the Gaudet and Roberson
families.

3a

Jean Auguste Rosémond married
cousin Anne Marie Antoinette, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste
Hébert, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January
1845; Marie's mother was a Landry; they had to secure a
dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
Jean Auguste Rosémond may have died in Ascension Parish in October 1852;
the Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not
bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that
Rosémond died at "age 32 years"; Jean Auguste Rosémond would have been
only 31.

3b

Trasimond died in Ascension
Parish in March 1856. The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or mention a
wife, said that Trasimond Dufrois, as he called him, died at "age 39 1/2
years." One wonders if Trasimond married.

4

Pierre-Augustin or
-Auguste, by his second
wife, born near St.-Gabriel in November 1780, married Marie-Rose or
-Clémence,
also called Clémence-Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Richard, at the St.-Gabriel church,
Iberville Parish, in June 1808. Their son Auguste Valmond or
Valmont, called Valmont,was
born near St. Gabriel in July 1813. Their daughters married into the
Allain and Simoneaux families. Augustin, père remarried to
Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste LeBlanc, at the St.
Gabriel church in January 1823. Their son Augustin, fils was
born near St. Gabriel in January 1824 but died at age 8 1/2 months the
following September. Auguste, père died "at [the] home of his
brother Firmin Davat Landry," Iberville Parish, in July 1850; the St.
Gabriel priest who recorded his burial said that Auguste died at "age 72
years," but he was "only" 69.

Valmont died in Iberville
Parish in March 1856. The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or mention a
wife, said that Valmont died at "age 42 years." Did Valmont create
a family of his own? If not, except for its blood, this family
line died with him.

5

Simon, by his second wife,
born near St.-Gabriel in October 1782, married Madeleine, Marie, or Manon, also called
Marie Françoise Anstanore, daughter of fellow
Acadian Amand Hébert, at St. Gabriel in February 1805. Their
son Simon, fils was born near St. Gabriel in May 1807, and Hermogène
in March
1818. Their daughters married into the Hébert and Jeffries
families. Simon, père, described by the recording priest as
"formerly a captain of the militia," died near St. Gabriel,
Iberville Parish, in November 1838;
he was 56 years old. One of his sons settled in West Baton Rouge
Parish.

5a

Simon, fils married
Telcide, daughter of fellow Acadian Abraham Arceneaux of St.
James Parish, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in December
1833. Simon, fils died near St. Gabriel in May 1834; he was
only 27 years old. Did his family line die with him?

5b

Hermogène married Marie Estelle,
called Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Placide LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in September 1837. Their son Joseph
Alcée was born near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in November
1846. Hermogène died near
Brusly in November 1847; the priest who
recorded his burial, and did not bother to give any parents' names or
even mention a wife, said that Armogène, as he called him, died at "age
30 yrs.," but he was only 29.

6

Youngest son Firmin-Dava,
-Davat, -Davot,or -Damase,by his third wife, born posthumously near St.-Gabriel in November 1792,
married Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadian Étienne Comeaux,
at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in February 1817. Their son Firmin Dava, fils was baptized at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, age
unrecorded, in March 1818, and Adolphe was born at Shreveport,
Louisiana, in October 1819. Firmin Dava,
père remarried to Marie Mélisaire,
called Mélisaire, daughter of fellow Acadian Arsène Braud and widow of Gilbert
Comeaux, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1823.
Their son Joseph Austin, called Austin,was born near St. Gabriel in July 1829.
Their daughters married into the Comeaux, Hunt, and LeBlanc families. Firmin Dava, père remarried
again--this third marriage--to cousin Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of
Édouard Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1843; Firmin Dava
was 51 years old at the time of the wedding and old enough to have been his new
wife's father. Their
son Édouard Numa was born near St. Gabriel in February 1845 but died
at age 7 in May 1852.
Joséphine died in Iberville Parish in January 1848; she was only 25 years
old. Firmin Dava, père remarried yet again--his fourth marriage!--to
Marie Euphrosine, Euphrasie, or Euphrasia, daughter of George Troxler and widow of Charles
LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1852; Firmin Dava was
several weeks shy of age 60 at the time of the wedding. Their son
Firmin David was born in Iberville Parish in April 1859, when his father
was 66 years old. Firmin Dava's older sons died young, but one of them,
Adolphe, managed to create a family of his own.

6a

Firmin Dava, fils, by
his first wife, died
near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1839. He was only 22 years old and
probably did
not marry.

6b

Adolphe, by his first wife,
married cousin Marie Célestine, called Célestine, daughter of David Landry, at the
St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1840. Their son
Joseph Adolphe was born near St. Gabriel in July 1841 but died at
age 1 1/2 in November 1842, David was born in March 1843,
Olivier, a twin, in September 1846 but died at age 1 in October
1847, Ignace was born in January 1850, Théodore in
February 1852, and Adolphe, fils in January 1856. Adolphe,
père died near St. Gabriel in April 1856; he was only 36 years old.
Célestine remarried at St. Gabriel in April 1862.

David married Ophelia,
daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Vives Hébert, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1868.

6c

Austin, by his second wife,
died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in late March 1854, but
"because of inclement weather the services were performed" the first
week of April. Austin was only 24 years old at the time of his
death. He probably did
not marry.

Jean LANDRY (c1753-?; René le jeune,
Abraham)

Jean, fourth and youngest son of
Alexandre Landry, fils and Anne Flan, born at Minas in c1753, was
deported with his family to Maryland in 1755. Colonial officials
counted him with his widowed mother and siblings at Baltimore in July 1763.
He came to Louisiana in 1767 with his family and settled near St.-Gabriel.
He may have died young.

Descendants of Hyacinthe
LANDRY (c1743-1792; René le jeune, Germain)

Hyacinthe, elder son of
Jean-Baptiste Landry and Anne Babin, born probably at Pigiguit in
c1743, was deported with his family to Maryland in 1755. Colonial
officials counted him with his widowed father and siblings at Oxford, on
Maryland's Eastern Shore, in July 1763. He married cousin
Marguerite, daughter of René Landry, in Maryland in the mid-1760s.
They came to Louisiana in 1767 with no children and settled near St.-Gabriel,
where Spanish officials counted them on the "right bank ascending" in 1777;
they owned a single slave by then. Their daughters married into the
Babin,
Broussard,
Henry, LeBlanc, and Melançon families. Hyacinthe
died near St.-Gabriel in
December 1792; he was only 49 years old. Marguerite may have
died in nearby Ascension Parish in May 1816, in her early 70s. Only
one of their sons created a family of his own, in Ascension Parish.

1

Older son Jean-Baptiste married
cousin Madeleine-Marie or Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Simon Landry, at
Ascension in May 1790. They may have been that rare Acadian couple who
had no children.

2

Younger son Auguste- or
Augustin-Hyacinthe, baptized at
St.-Gabriel, age unrecorded, in October 1779, married Marguerite Eugènie,
called Eugènie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Babin, at the Donaldson church,
Ascension Parish, in April 1818. Their son Adélard was born in
Ascension Parish in January 1819, Alfred in December 1824,
Eugène Léon or
Léon Eugène, also called Léon U.,in July 1830, Lazare Gustave, called L. Gustave
and Gustave,in September 1832, and
Sylvère Augustin or Augustin Sylvère, also called A. Silvère
and Silvert,in June 1840.
Their daughters married the same Landry cousin.
Auguste Hyacinthe died in Ascension Parish in November 1844; the
Donaldsonville priest who recorded his burial, and who did not bother to
give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Auguste Jacinte, as he
called him, died at "age 70 years," but he was "only" in his mid- to late
60s.

2a

Adélard married Marie Ursule,
called Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Gaudin, at the bride's
home in Ascension Parish in February 1840; the marriage was recorded by
a Donaldsonville priest. Their son Martin Telesphore,
called Telesphore,was in Ascension Parish in November
1840 but died at age 2 in October 1842, Octave Roman, also called
R. Octave,
was born in August
1843, Robert Atlas in April 1854, Julien Ernest in June 1857,
and Jean Baptiste Achille in August 1860. Their daughters
married into the Babin, Bujole, and Dicharry families.

During the War of 1861, Octave Roman, called
R. Octave in Confederate records, served in the Donaldsonville
Artillery, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought in Virginia,
Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana
Tigers. Octave enlisted in the battery in March 1862, age 18,
and surrendered with his unit, and Lee's Army of Northern Virginia,
at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, in April 1865. Octave
returned home and married
Georgina, daughter of Adélard Dicharry, at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in February 1866; Georgina's mother was a
Poirier; Octave's sister Marie Ersilia married Georgina's
brother Sosthène.

2b

Léon Eugène married double cousin Marie Adveline or Aveline, daughter of Simon
Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in
January 1853; Adveline's mother, also, was a Babin. Their
son Samuel was born in Ascension Parish in September 1855,
Pascal Rodolphe in May 1862, and Eusèbe Léonce in August
1867.

2c

Gustave married cousin Lutetia, daughter of
fellow Acadian Colin Babin, at the Donaldsonville church,
Ascension Parish, in January 1854; they had to secure a dispensation for
third degree of consanguinity in order to marry. Their son
Zenon Pranostradi was born in Ascension Parish in July 1856,
Joseph Lazare, called Lazare,in March 1862 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1863, René Flegie
was born in November 1864, Claude Fergus near Gonzales in
June 1867, and Amédée Enamel in March 1869.

2d

Alfred died in Ascension
Parish in October 1855. He was only 30 years old. One
wonders if he married.

2e

Augustin Sylvère married cousin Marie Lise Carmel,
another daughter of Colin Babin, at the Donaldsonville church,
Ascension Parish, in July 1861, and, called Sylvère
A. by the recording priest, remarried to cousin Ade Elmire, called
Elmire, Bujole at the Donaldsonville church in December 1865;
Sylvère and Elmire had to secure a
dispensation for third degree of consanguinity and second degree of
affinity in order to marry. Their son Joseph Auguste was
born in Ascension Parish in March 1867, and Vincent Nathanael in
July 1868.

Descendants of
Jean-Athanase LANDRY (c1751-; René le jeune, Germain)

Jean-Athanase, younger son of
Jean-Baptiste Landry and Anne Babin, born
probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1751, was exiled with his family to
Maryland in 1755. Colonials officials counted them at Oxford, on
Maryland's Eastern Shore, in July 1763. He came to Louisiana with his
widowed father and siblings in 1767 and settled with them at St.-Gabriel,
where he may have married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Bonaventure LeBlanc,
in the late 1760s or early 1770s. Spanish officials counted him on the "left bank
ascending" at St.-Gabriel in 1777; by then, he was a widower and the father
of three children--two daughters, ages 8 and 6, and a 2-year-old son--but the census
taker did not bother to record the children's names. Jean-Athanase
remarried to Marie-Anne-Barbe, called Anne, daughter of French Creole Gabriel Moreau
of Morlaix, France, at
nearby Ascension in January 1787; Anne's mother was a Trahan.
Anne and her family had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, the
second of the Seven Ships, in 1785. Spanish officials counted Jean and
his new family on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension in 1788
and 1791; the census takers found no children with him in either census, so
his older children had either died, moved out, or married by then. Anne gave him
more children, including sons. They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche,
where Spanish officials counted them in the late 1790s, but they seem
to have returned to the river in the early 1800s. Their daughters married into the Hébert, LeBlanc,
and Rivers families.

1

Older son Jean-Nicolas,
called Nicolas, from
his first wife, born at Ascension in
September 1775, married cousin
Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Landry, at Ascension in April 1802.
Their son Constant Clément was born at Assumption on upper Bayou
Lafourche in September 1807,
and Jean Maxile Aurelien near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in
October 1812.

2

Younger son Joseph, by his
second wife, born near St.-Gabriel in December 1799, may have died young.

Descendants of Joseph LANDRY
(c1743-; René le jeune, Pierre)

Joseph, son of Pierre Landry,
fils and Marie Babin, born probably at Minas in c1743, was deported
with his family to Maryland in 1755. Colonial officials counted him
with younger sister Ursule and her husband, Jean Landry, at Oxford,
on Maryland's Eastern Shore, in July 1763. Joseph
came to Louisiana with his sister, brother-in-law, a niece, and an orphan in
1767 and settled near St.-Gabriel, where he may have married fellow Acadian
Marguerite
LeBlanc in the late 1760s or early 1770s, or his wife may have been
Madeleine Babin. A daughter of Joseph Landry and
Madeleine Babin married into the Braud family at St.-Gabriel.

Joseph-Donat,
called Donat, perhaps his son by Marguerite LeBlanc, born at St.-Gabriel in March 1773, married Geneviève,
daughter of French or Spanish Creole Louis Estivan, Stephen,
Stieven, or Stiven of Manchac, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in January 1805; Geneviève's mother was a Babin. They remained on upper Bayou Lafourche.

Joseph-Marie, eldest son of
Augustin Landry and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Babin,
born probably at Pigiguit in c1748, was deported with his family to Maryland
in 1755. Colonial officials counted him with his family at Upper
Marlborough in July 1763. He came to Louisiana with his family in 1767
and settled near St.-Gabriel. He married Marguerite, daughter of French
Creole Jean Pivauteau of St.-Gabriel, at nearby Ascension in December
1783. They settled near St.-Gabriel. Their daughters married into the Brown,
Guilbeau,
Lapointe,
Templet, and Trahan families, and some settled on the western
prairies. Daughter Marie gave birth to son Grégoire near St.
Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in March 1814; the priest who recorded the boy's
baptism did not give the father's name.

1

Oldest son Joseph, fils,
born near St.-Gabriel in February 1794, may have died in Ascension Parish in
February 1817. If so, he would have been only 23 years old. One
wonders if he married.

2

Édouard, born near
St.-Gabriel in August 1797, may have married cousin Marie Émilie
Landry at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in the 1820s. If so, their son
Euchere was born near St. Gabriel in July 1826.

3

Youngest son Anaclet, a
twin, born near St.-Gabriel in October 1801, may have died young.

Joseph-Ignace, called Ignace, second son of
Augustin Landry and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Babin,
born probably at Pigiguit in c1753, was deported with his family to Maryland
in 1755. Colonial officials counted him with his family at Upper
Marlborough in July 1763. He came to Louisiana with his family in 1767
and settled near St.-Gabriel. He married cousin Scholastique, daughter of
fellow Acadian Antoine Braud and sister of his brother Mathurin's
wife, at nearby Ascension in February 1776; Scholastique's mother was a
Landry. Their daughter married
into the Hébert family. Joseph-Ignace remarried to
Olive-Élisabeth, or -Isabelle, called Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian Honoré Braud,
at St.-Gabriel in October 1787. Olive-Élisabeth had come to Louisiana aboard
La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785.
His older married sons settled in Iberville Parish, his younger sons in West
Baton Rouge Parish.

1

Oldest son Louis, by his
first wife, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in May 1777, may have
died young.

2

Joseph-Manuel or
Manuel-Joseph, called
Manuel or Emmanuel, from his first wife, born near St.-Gabriel in August 1781, married Clarisse Céleste, called
Céleste, daughter of
French Creole Pierre Bruneteau, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville
Parish, in February 1808; Céleste's mother was an Hébert. Their
son Manuel Dorville was born near St. Gabriel in September 1809, and
Jean in c1812 but died at age 11 in March 1823. Their
daughters married into the Bujole and Leveque families.
Emmanuel died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in December 1854; he was
a widow (his wife had died in August 1853, age 59, perhaps a victim of the
yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana during the summer and fall
of that year); the priest who recorded Emmanuel's burial, and who did not
bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that he died
at "age 70 yrs."; Joseph Manuel would have been 73. Did this family
line, except for its blood, die with him?

3

Joseph-Auguste, by his
first wife, born near St.-Gabriel in January 1783, may have died young.

4

Élie, by his second wife,
born near St.-Gabriel in February 1790, married Henriette, daughter of fellow
Acadian Charles Hébert, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge
Parish, in January 1813. They settled probably in West Baton Rouge
parishes. Their son Maximilien was born in July 1816, Jean Dresimond, probably Trasimond,in July 1818,
Adolphe in September 1820, Octave in October 1825, Drosin in February 1828,
and Joseph Jules in January 1831.
Their daughters married into the Babin, Hébert, Landry,
and Trosclair families. Élie may have remarried
to Azélie, perhaps also called Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph LeBlanc and widow of
Firmin Guidry, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in
December 1841; if so, Élie was 51 years old at the time of the wedding.
Élie died near Brusly in July 1848; he was 58 years old.

4a

Maximilien, by his first wife, may have married
French Creole Hermance Saizan and settled in Pointe Coupee Parish
by the early 1840s.

4b

Jean Trasimond (not to be
confused with the lieutenant governor's son who bore the
same name and who also settled in West Baton Rouge Parish), by Élie's
first wife, may have
married cousin Marie Amelie, Ameline, Amelina, or Amelise Landry at Baton
Rouge by the early 1840s.
They settled near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Joseph Ursin was born in May 1853, Jean Albert, perhaps called Albert, in May 1855
but may have died at age 10 1/2 in February 1866, and Ignace Élie
was born in February 1857. Their daughter married into the
Duilhet family.

5

Raphaël, by his second
wife, born near St.-Gabriel in October 1792, married Rosalie, daughter
of fellow Acadian Malo Guidry, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton
Rouge Parish, in August 1825. They settled in West Baton
Rouge Parish. Their son Joseph Célestin was
born in May 1826 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1829,
Jules was born in May 1835, Joseph A., perhaps Joseph
Alexandre, in June 1839 but may have died at age 12 in August 1851, and
Terence Olivier was born in October 1842. Their daughters married
into the Borvinkelmann and Tircuit families. Raphaël
died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1855; the priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
even mention a wife, said that Raphaël died at "age 61 years"; Raphaël was
62.

6

Narcisse, by his second
wife, born near St.-Gabriel in October 1794, probably died young.

7

Another Narcisse, by his
second wife, born near St.-Gabriel in January 1796, was a resident of Baton
Rouge when he married Marguerite or Marie Carmelite Hernandez,
called Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Hébert, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1819. They settled
probably in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Pierre Bélisaire,
called Bélisaire,was born in June 1824, Joseph Amédée, called Amédée,
in December 1828, Trasimond in August 1839, and Simon Alcide
near Brusly in August 1845. Their daughters
married into the Bourg, Bujole, Hébert, Molaison, and Rivet
families.

7a

Pierre Bélisaire married cousin Lise
Élizabeth, also called Marguerite Lise, daughter of Joseph Augustin Leveque, at the Brusly
church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1851; Lise's mother was a
Landry; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of
consanguinity in order to marry. Their son Robert Bélisaire
was born near Brusly in December 1855.

7b

Trasimond married cousin Marie
Amelie, called Amelie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Bujole, at the Brusly
church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in November 1867; Amelie's mother
was a Landry; Trasimond and Marie Amelie had to secure a
dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
They settled near Brusly.

7c

Simon Alcide married cousin
Marie Céleste, another daughter of Joseph Augustin Leveque, at
the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in November 1868; they, too,
had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order
to marry.

8

Valérien, also called
Valière, from his second wife, born near St.-Gabriel in March 1798, married Marie or
Julie Eméranthe, Emérite, or Eulalie, daughter of
fellow Acadian Joseph LeBlanc, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton
Rouge Parish, in October 1825. They settled probably in West Baton
Rouge Parish. Their son Joseph Valérien was
born in August 1826, Pierre Ulysse in August 1833, Jacques Adolphe in May 1835,
Sosthène was baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 4 months, in June
1840, and
Derosin Adamis, called Adamis,was baptized at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge
Parish, age unrecorded, in March 1842 but died at age 14 in October 1855. Their daughters married into the
Tullier family. Valérien, père may have died near Brusly in February 1855; the priest
who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names
or even mention a wife, said that Valère, as he called him, died at "age 58
years"; Valérien, père would have been a few weeks shy of 57.

Joseph Valérien married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Zéphirin
Daigre, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January
1848. Their son Adolphe Odilon was born near Baton Rouge in
June 1860.

9

Youngest son Élie-Onésime,
called Onésime, from his second wife, born near St.-Gabriel in February 1800, married Jeanne
Joséphine, Varbine or Zerbine, daughter of
fellow Acadian Magloire Dupuis, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton
Rouge Parish, in February 1825. They settled in West Baton Rouge
Parish. Their son Léon was born in August 1826 but died at age 3 in September 1829, Edmond
was born in February 1828 but died at
age 7 1/2 in June 1836, and Jules Oscar was born in September 1833.
Their daughters married into the Aillet and Patureaux families. Onésime died in West Baton Rouge Parish in April 1837; the priest who
recorded his burial said that Onésime "of Iberville" was 40 years old when
he died, but he was only 37.

Mathurin, third and youngest son
of Augustin Landry and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Babin,
born at either Pigiguit or in Maryland in c1755, was deported with his
family to Maryland in 1755. Colonial officials counted him and his
family at Upper Marlborough in July 1763. He came to Louisiana with
his family in 1767 and settled near St.-Gabriel. He married cousin Perpétué, daughter of
fellow Acadian Antoine Braud and sister of his brother Joseph-Ignace's
wife, at nearby Ascension in May 1779; Perpétué's mother was a Landry.
Their daughter married into the LeBlanc family. In September
1779, Mathurin, a private in the Lafourche company of militia, fought under
Spanish Governor Gálvez at
Manchac and Baton Rouge; he and fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste dit
Petit-Jean Hébert of the St.-Gabriel militia were the only men wounded in Gálvez's campaign; both
survived their wounds. Mathurin remarried to cousin Marie-Apolline,
called Apolline, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Hébert, at St.-Gabriel in February
1800; Apolline's mother was a Landry. They settled in what
became West Baton Rouge Parish and near Plaquemine in what became Iberville
Parish. Their daughter married
into the Bernard du Montier (French Creole, not Acadian)family. Mathurin died probably near
Plaquemine in January 1808; he was only 53 years old.

1

Oldest son Joseph-Xavier,
called Xavier and Janvier, from his first
wife, baptized at St.-Gabriel, age unrecorded, in April 1780, married Marie
Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Foret, at St. Gabriel in
February 1805. They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Landry
Xavier or Xavier Landry, was born in February 1806, Pierre Treville,
called Treville,in August 1807,
Galein was baptized at the Baton Rouge church, East
Baton Rouge Parish, age 1, in October 1823, and Joseph Octave,
perhaps called Octave,was
born in November 1825. Their daughters married into the Ferbose
and Hébert families. Xavier died probably in West Baton Rouge
Parish in January 1831; he was only 50 years old.

1a

Landry Xavier married Marie Iréné,
Hiréné,
or Irma, daughter of fellow Acadian François Trahan of West Baton Rouge
Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in December
1827. They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Romain Deozor, called Deozor,
was born in October 1828, François was baptized at
the Baton Rouge church, age 5 months, in October 1840, Ernest,
probably a twin,was born in c1845, and Numa in November 1847 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1849. Their daughters married into the Leray and Lejeune families. Landry
Xavier died in West Baton Rouge Parish in October 1855; the
Brusly priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give
any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Landry died at "age
50 years"; Landry Xavier would have been 4 months shy of that age.

Deozor married Elisa,
daughter of fellow Acadian Dominique Labauve, at the Brusly
church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1851.

François married Lutecia,
daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Labauve, at the
Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in March 1867.

Ernest married cousin
Maria, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Amédée Bujole, at
the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in December 1869;
Maria's mother was a Landry.

1b

Pierre Treville married cousin
Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Moïse Foret and widow
of Jean Pierre Laguionie, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton
Rouge Parish, in January 1830. Did Pierre Treville father any
sons?

1c

Joseph Octave married cousin
Marie Emma or Aimé, daughter of Jean Alexandry or Alexandria, at the Brusly church, West
Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1848; Emma's mother, also, was a Foret.
Their son Joseph Numa was born near Brusly, perhaps posthumously,
in August 1852. Joseph Octave may have died near Brusly in August
1852; the priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give
any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Octave Landry
died at "age 29 yrs.," but Joseph Octave would have been only 26.
If this was him, he died two days before his son was born.

2

Pierre-Dosité, by his first
wife, born near St.-Gabriel in December 1781, may have died young.

3

Joseph, by his first wife,
born near St.-Gabriel in January 1790, married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Daigre,
at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in either March 1810 or
January 1811. They settled probably in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Joseph Narcisse,
called Narcisse,was born in December 1815, and Ulysse in
December 1826. Their daughter married into the Vaughn family.

3a

Joseph Narcisse married first
cousin Estelle, daughter of French Creole Agricole Bernard de Montier
of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge
Parish, in January 1844; Estelle's mother was Joseph Narcisse's paternal
aunt, Améranthe Landry. Joseph Narcisse and Estelle settled in West Baton Rouge
Parish. Their son Lucien was born August 1847, Justin
in September 1849, Homer Joseph in September 1858, and Arthur Bernard
in August 1861.

3b

Ulysse may have died "at
Matamoros, Mexico," in July 1846. He was only 19 years old, a
victim, perhaps, of illness or wounds suffered in the war with Mexico.
Amazingly, his body was returned to his family, and he was buried near
Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1847. Sadly, the priest
who recorded his burial did not bother to give Ulysse's parents' names,
but this probably was him. Ulysse evidently did not marry.

4

Ursin, by his first wife,
born near St.-Gabriel in May 1791, married Marie Eméranthe, called Eméranthe, daughter of fellow
Acadian Jean Baptiste Hébert, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge
Parish, in January 1813. They settled probably in West Baton Rouge
Parish. Their son Ursin Amédée, called
Amédée,was born in March 1827, Joseph Alfred in September 1832, and Jean Baptiste Oscar,
called Oscar,in December 1834. Their daughters married into the Bernard du
Montier (French Creole, not Acadian), Dupuy, Labauve, and
Martinez
families. Ursin died by May 1850, when he was listed as deceased in a
daughter's marriage record.

4a

Amédée married double cousin
Marie Désirée, called Désirée, daughter of Élie Landry, at the Brusly church,
West Baton Rouge Parish, in September 1850; Marie's mother, also, was an
Hébert; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of
consanguinity in order to marry. Their son Antoine Olivier
was born near Brusly in August 1853.

4b

Joseph Alfred married cousin
Marie Aloysia or Aloysa, daughter of French Creole Joseph Auguste Leveque,
at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1856; Marie's
mother was a Landry. Their son Joseph Alfred, fils
was born near Brusly in July 1859, and Élie Joseph in March 1868.

4c

Jean Baptiste Oscar married
Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joachim Daigre, at the Brusly
church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1856, on the same day and at
the same place his older brother Joseph Alfred married. Jean
Baptiste Oscar and Louise's son Jean Baptiste Henri was born near
Brusly in January 1859, and Patrick Oscar in February 1861.

5

Landry, by his second wife,
born probably near Plaquemine, present-day Iberville Parish, in April 1803, married Marguerite, daughter of
fellow Acadian Zéphirin Daigre, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton
Rouge Parish, in August 1828. They settled on the west side of the
river near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish. Their son Ulysses Mathurin was
born in July 1829, and Jules in August 1832. Their daughters married into the
Barthélémy (French Creole, not Acadian) and Fabre families. Landry may have remarried to French
Creole Marie Delphine, called Delphine, Villier, Villiers, Devillier, or Devilliers,
also called Greau,
in a civil ceremony in either Iberville or West Baton Rouge Parish by the
mid-1840s. Their son Louis was born
near Plaquemine in December 1851. Their daughter married into the
Chutz family at Lakeland, Pointe Coupee Parish. Landry may have
died in West Baton Rouge Parish in October 1855; the Brusly priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
even mention a wife, said that Landry died at "age 50 years"; this Landry
would have been 52 1/2. A 16-year-old daughter died near Lakeland in
May 1864, so one wonders when the family moved to Pointe Coupee.

6

Youngest son Jean Dorville,
called J. Dorville and Dorville, from his second wife, born probably near Plaquemine,
present-day Iberville Parish, in December 1804,
married Marie Aureline, called Aureline, another daughter of Louis Daigre, at the Baton
Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1827. They settled
in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son
Célestin was born in February 1828, Adolphe
Dorville or Dorville Adolphe in September 1833, Jean Damas in February 1840, and
Louis Mathurin in February 1849 but died the following June. They
also had a son named Adonis, unless he was Jean Damas. Their daughters married into the
Babin and Landry families. Dorville likely died near
Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1864; the priest who recorded the
burial did not bother to give any parents' names, mention a wife, or even
give the age of the deceased, whom he called Dorvil; Jean Dorville would
have been 59 years old.

6a

Adolphe Dorville married
cousin Marie Octavine, daughter of fellow Acadian Hilaire Bergeron,
at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1855; Marie's
mother was a Landry. Adolphe remarried to Eliza, daughter
of Joseph Berret, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in
June 1866; Eliza's mother was a LeBlanc.

6b

Adonis married Emma, daughter
of fellow Acadian Eusilien Broussard, at the Brusly church, West
Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1861. They were living near Lakeland,
Pointe Coupee Parish, where few other Acadians settled, in the late
1860s.

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A third contingent of Landrys
from Maryland--22 more members of the family-- reached New Orleans from Port Tobacco
in February 1768 with the large extended family led by Alexis and Honoré Breau of Pigiguit. Governor Ulloa forced them to settle at Fort San
Luìs de Natchez, north of Baton Rouge, far from their kinsmen on the Acadian
Coast. A French-Creole-led revolt overthrew Ulloa
later that year; the Breaus and their kinsmen no doubt applauded the
ouster of the unpopular governor. Ulloa's successor, General Alejandro O'Reilly,
at the head of a substantial military force from Cuba, established formal Spanish rule in
the colony in the summer of 1769. He ordered the consolidation of Spanish defenses on the
river and allowed the Acadians to leave Fort San Luìs de Natchez.
After their release from the isolated settlement, theLandrys at Natchez moved downriver to the Acadian Coast and even to the western prairies:

Catherine Landry of Minas,
age 48, widow of Antoine Babin, came with seven children, ages 22 to
4. They moved to Ascension.

Basile Landry of Pigiguit,
age 41, came with wife Brigitte Boudrot, age 36, and two
daughters--Susanne-Marie, age 12, and Madeleine, age 2. They moved to
the Attakapas District.

Joseph Landry of Pigiguit,
age 38, came with wife Marie-Madeleine Boudrot of Pigiguit, age 35,
and three children--Joseph, fils, age 13, Simon, age 5, and
Madeleine, age 3. They moved to Ascension, where Joseph, père
died in the early 1770s. Joseph, fils moved on to the western
prairies, and Simon may have settled at Ascension.

Marie-Josèphe Landry, age
31, came with husband Joseph-Charles Breau of Pigiguit, age 34, and
four children, ages 8 to infant. They moved to St.-Gabriel, where
Marie-Josèphe died a widow in October 1807, age 70.

Mathurin Landry, age 34,
came with wife Marie Babin, age 28, and two children--Marie-Ludivine,
age 6, and Marcel, age 2. Mathurin remarried to cousin Anne Landry,
widow of ____ Dugas, at New Orleans in c1768. They settled at
Cabanocé and Ascension.

Marguerite Landry, age 33,
widow of Simon-Pierre Breau, came with five daughters, ages 14 to
infant. They settled on the Acadian Coast.

Marguerite Landry, age 32,
came with husband Antoine Breau, age 32, and five children, ages 17
to 4. They settled at St.-Gabriel, where Marguerite died a widow in
December 1790, age 54.

Rose-Osite, called Osite, Landry, age 30,
widow of Janvier Breau, came with three daughters, ages 5 to infancy.
Her daughters settled at St.-Gabriel and Ascension.

Seven unmarried siblings, children
of Joseph Landry of Minas--Madeleine,
age 28, Augustin, age 25, Geneviève, age
23, Cécile, age 21, Alexandre, age 18, Pierre, age 16, and Anne-Madeleine,
age 14--came to the colony together. They settled at
St.-Gabriel and St.-Jacques. Madeleine married an Hébert, Geneviève a Bellot,
Cécile a Rivet, and Anne-Madeleine a LeBlanc. Madeleine
died at St.-Gabriel in March 1788, in her late 40s.

Anne Landry, widow of ____
Dugas, would have been 22 years old in 1768. She married
cousin Mathurin, son of
Abraham Landry, at New Orleans in c1768 and settled
with him at Cabanocé and then at Ascension. Mathurin came to Louisiana
from Maryland in 1768, so she, too, may have come to the colony with the Breau party.

Descendants of Mathurin
LANDRY (c1734-1806; René le jeune, Abraham)

Mathurin, second son of Abraham dit
Petit Abram
Landry and his first wife Élisabeth LeBlanc,
born probably at Pigiguit in c1734, was deported with his family to Maryland
in 1755. He married fellow Acadian Marie Babin probably in Maryland in
the late 1750s or early 1760s. Colonial officials counted him, his
wife, and a daughter at Port Tobacco, on the lower Potomac River, in July
1763. They came to Louisiana in 1768 with the party led by the
Breau brothers of Pigiguit and were forced to settled at San Luìs de
Natchez. Their daughter married into the
Dupuy family. Mathurin remarried to cousin Anne Landry, widow of
____ Dugas, at New Orleans in c1768. When the Spanish released
the Acadians from Natchez in 1769, Mathurin and Anne settled at
Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where Spanish officials counted them on the right, or
west, bank of the river in 1769 and on the same side of the river at nearby
Ascension in 1770 and 1777; they owned a single slave in 1777. Their
daughters married
into the Braud, Bujole, Comes, Dannequin, Dugas,
and Gibosset families. He likely was the Maturin[sic] Landry who had a run-in with the Ascension
priest, Father Pedro de Zamora, in 1789; the priest threatened to shoot him
after Mathurin complained about the good father confiscating a yolk of oxen
and a cart from him; the incident, among others, led to the priest's removal
from Ascension. Mathurin died near St. Gabriel in 1806;
the priest who recorded his burial said that Mathurin was 73 years old when
he died. Only his younger son created a family of
his own and settled in what became Ascension Parish.

1

Older son Marcel, by his first wife, born in Maryland in
c1766, probably died young.

2

Younger son Joseph-Nicolas,
by his second wife, born at Ascension in September 1774, married Susanne
Marie Josèphe, daughter of Frenchman Thomas Houardon Calegan, at Ascension in
January 1804; Susanne's mother was a Le Prince. Susanne,
born in Morlaix, France, had come to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the
fourth of the Seven Ships, with her mother and maternal grandparents in 1785. Their son Joseph Raymond
Tranquille Mathurin, called Joseph Mathurin,was born at
Ascension in July 1806, Joseph
Ovide, called Ovide,in August 1808 but died at age 15 in
August 1823, and Joseph Nicolas, fils, called Nicolas, was born in January 1821.
Their daughters married Gonzales brothers. Joseph Nicolas, père died in Ascension Parish in November 1827; he
was only 53 years old. His youngest son settled on upper Bayou
Lafourche, but his oldest son remained in Ascension Parish.

2a

Joseph Mathurin married
cousin Gertrude Melitine, daughter of Simon Béloni Landry,
at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1828.
Their son Joseph Thomas was born in Ascension Parish in October
1828. Joseph Mathurin, called Joseph Nicolas by the recording priest, died in
Ascension Parish in October 1829; he was only 23 years old.

Joseph Thomas died in Ascension Parish in November 1848.
He was only 20 years old and probably did not marry. His
family line may have died with him.

2b

Joseph Nicolas, fils married Marie
Carmelite,
daughter of Spanish Creole Manuel Suarez, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in February 1840. They remained on
upper Bayou Lafourche.

Augustin, eldest son of Joseph
Landry and Marie-Josèphe Richard, born probably at Grand-Pré in
c1743, was deported with his family to Maryland in 1755. Colonial
officials counted him with his family at Port Tobacco, on the lower Potomac
River, in July 1763. He and six of his siblings came to Louisiana in 1768 with
the party led by the Breau brothers of Pigiguit and were forced to
settled at San Luìs de Natchez. When the Spanish released them from
Natchez in 1769, he moved to St.-Gabriel, where he married fellow Acadian Anne-Marie,
called Marie,
Foret in the early 1770s. Their
daughters married into the Hébert and Melançon families. Augustin remarried to cousin Isabelle, daughter of Pierre
Landry, at St.-Gabriel in August 1786. Augustin died at St.-Gabriel in
March 1791; he was only 48 years old. His only son does not seem to
have created a family of his own, so, except for its blood, this line of the
family probably died with him.

Simon, baptized at
St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in June 1777, may have died young.

Alexandre, second son of Joseph
Landry and Marie-Josèphe Richard, born probably at Grand-Pré in
c1750, was deported with his family to Maryland in 1755. Colonial
officials counted them at Port Tobacco, on the lower Potomac River, in July
1763. He and six of his siblings came to Louisiana in 1768 with
the party led by the Breau brothers of Pigiguit and were forced to
settled at San Luìs de Natchez. When the Spanish released them from
Natchez in 1769, he moved to St.-Gabriel, where he married Marie-Modeste,
called Modeste, daughter
of fellow Acadian Amable Hébert, in February 1786. Their
daughters married into the Hébert, Lanclos, and Rivet
families; one daughter settled on the western prairies.
Alexandre died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in November 1822; the
priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents'
names or even mention a wife, said that Alexandre died at "age 70 yrs.," but he was closer to 72.

1

Oldest son François-Joseph,
called Joseph, born near
St.-Gabriel in January 1787, married cousin Henriette Marine or
Marie Henriette,
daughter of fellow Acadian Grégoire Melançon, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in June 1815; Henriette's mother was a Landry.
Their son Joseph Anselme, called Anselme,was born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish,
in April 1816. Their daughter married into the Babin
and Descoteaux
families.

Anselme married cousin
Madeleine Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of François Landry, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1837. Their son
Joseph Adrien, perhaps called Adrien,was born in Ascension Parish in March 1840,
Siméon Félix in March 1846, and Augustin Telesphore in August
1851. Their daughters married into the Babin, Landry,
and LeBlanc families. Anselme remarried to cousin Clothilde, daughter of fellow
Acadian Paul Babin and widow of François Denoux, at the
Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in July 1856; Clothilde's
mother was a Landry; Anselme was 40 years old at the time of the
wedding.

Adrien, by his first wife,
may have married fellow Acadian Ophelia Babin. Their
son Joseph Étienne was born near Gonzales, Ascension Parish,
in December 1865, and Vincent Apollinaire in July 1867.
Adrien remarried to cousin Alice, daughter of Joseph Landry,
at the Gonzales church in November 1870; they had to secure a
dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.

2

Louis-David, called
David, born near St.-Gabriel in July 1790, married cousin Marie Cléonise
Célestine, called
Cléonise, daughter of
fellow Acadian Charles Braud, at the St.-Gabriel church, Iberville
Parish, in September 1818; Cléonise's mother was a Landry.
Their daughters married into the Cox, Guitteaux, Landry, and Rivet
families. David died near St. Gabriel in November 1822; the priest who
recorded the
burial, and who did bother to give any parents' names or even mention a
wife, said that David died at "age 28," but he was 32.
He and his wife seem to have had no sons, so this line of the family, except for its
blood, probably died with him.

3

Youngest son Mathurin, born
near
St.-Gabriel in July 1794, married Marie Adèle or Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian
Arsène Braud, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in
February 1821. Their son Jean Baptiste Léon was born near St.
Gabriel in January 1822 but died at age 10 months the following November.
Mathurin remarried to Marie Élise, Elmire, Eloire, Elvere, Elvina, Elvira,
Elvire, or Éloise, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier
Hernandez, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1828. Their
son Victorin was born near St. Gabriel in March 1830, Alexandre Duprélong
in January 1831, Joseph Drausin in February 1836 but died at age
1 1/2 in September 1837, Paul Olivier in January 1838, Joseph
in March 1840, and
Christophe in July 1842. Their daughters married into the Orcutt
and Orillion
families. Their sons settled near Plaquemine, on the west side of the
river.

3a

Victorin, by his second wife,
married Marguerite or Marie Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian Xavier Rivet,
at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in October 1856.

3b

Joseph, by his second wife,
married Celina Rivet, perhaps Marie Celina, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean
Arvillien Rivet. Their son Edmond was born near
Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in November 1869.

Pierre LANDRY
(c1752-1780s; René le jeune, Jean, René)

Pierre, third and youngest son of
Joseph Landry and Marie-Josèphe Richard, born probably at
Grand-Pré in c1752, was deported with his family to Maryland in 1755.
Colonial officials counted him with his family at Port Tobacco, on the lower
Potomac River, in July 1763. He and his family came to Louisiana in
1768 with the party led by the Breau brothers of Pigiguit and were
forced to settled at San Luìs de Natchez. When the Spanish released
them from Natchez in 1769, he moved to St.-Jacques, where he married
Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Bonaventure
Foret, in February 1777. They settled at nearby St.-Gabriel.
Pierre died by November 1781, when his wife remarried at St.-Gabriel. Did he
father any sons?

Descendants of Simon LANDRY (c1763-; René le jeune,
Antoine, Pierre)

Simon, younger son of Joseph
Landry and Marie-Madeleine Boudrot, was born in Maryland in
c1763. Colonial officials counted him with his family at Upper
Marlborough in July 1763. He and his family came to Louisiana in 1768
with the party led by the Breau brothers of Pigiguit and were forced
to settle at San Luìs de Natchez. Simon may have married fellow
Acadian Françoise Trahan at Ascension in May 1787.

~

The arrival dates of at least two
Landrys who came to Louisiana in the 1760s and settled on the river
are difficult to determine:

Rose Landry, age
unrecorded, a widow whose husband's name may be lost to history, came with
three daughters, Madeleine, Marguerite, and Marie, ages unrecorded.
Where they settled is anyone's guess.

Marie Landry, born in
c1752, married fellow Acadian Charles Thibodeaux probably at
Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in c1768. Spanish officials counted them on the
left, or east, bank of the river at St.-Jacques in 1777. She and her
family settled at nearby St.-Gabriel, where she died in June 1798, in her
mid-40s.

~

A generation after the first
Landry family reached the colony, dozens more came to Louisiana from France
in 1785. These were Landrys from Minas whom the British had exiled to
Virginia in the fall of 1755, had deported to England the following year,
and repatriated to France in the spring of 1763; and also Landrys
from Pigiguit, Cobeguit, and Île St.-Jean whom the British had deported to
France in late 1758. After enduring a quarter century of neglect in
the mother county, they took up the Spanish government's offer to start a
new life in Louisiana. Fifty-four of them came to Louisiana aboard
five of the Seven Ships. Most of them chose to go to upper Bayou
Lafourche, but some of them settled in river communities:

Charles Landry of Pigiguit,
age 56, crossed on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which
reached New Orleans in late July. With him were wife Marguerite Boudrot of Pigiguit, age 48, and
seven children--Firmin-Pancrace, age 22, Marguerite-Françoise, age 19,
Jean-Sébastien dit Bastien, age 18, Louis-Abel, age 14, Jean-Jacques,
age 11, Charles, fils, age 8, and François-Marie, age 6. They
followed the majority of the passengers from their ship to Manchac, south of
Baton Rouge. Charles, père and Marguerite had
no more children in Louisiana. Daughter Marguerite-Françoise married into the
Breaux
and Guidry families and settled at Manchac and at nearby Ascension,
where she died in September 1801, in her late 30s.
Charles, père died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in March 1814;
he was 84 years old. Three of his sons remained on the river, and
three of them moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche. Sadly, none of the
sons who remained on the river created a family line that survived, but the
sons who moved on to Bayou Lafourche created substantial family lines there.

Anselme Landry, age 42,
crossed on Le Bon Papa with wife Agathe Barrieau, age 50.
They had no more children in Louisiana. They also moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche.

Marie-Olive Landry, age 18,
Anselme's daughter, crossed on Le Bon Papa with husband Paul-Dominique Boudrot, age
22, and their year-old son. They moved on to upper
Bayou Lafourche.

.

René Landry, age 53, a
widower, crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven
Ships, which reached New Orleans in early December. With him were brother-in-law Paul Babin, age 52, and eight
children--Marie-Madeleine, age 23, Servanne-Laurence, age 20,
Jean-Baptiste-Raphaël, age 18, Marguerite-Josèphe, age 16,
Anne-Marie-Jeanne, age 12, Pierre, age 19, Joseph-Marie, age 7, and Jeanne-Guillemette,
age 4. They followed the majority of the passengers from their ship to
the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge, before
moving down to the Baton Rouge area a few years later. René never
remarried. His daughters married into the Daigre, Doucet, Guidry,
and Raffray families. Most of them remained on the river, as did
most of his sons.
One of his daughters and son Joseph-Marie moved on to the western prairies.

Marie-Anne Landry, age 17,
crossed on La Ville d'Archangel with her mother, Anne Thériot, age 36, widow of Joseph
Granger, and five stepsiblings, ages 20 to 6. They moved on to
Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, where Marie-Anne married Canary Islander André Martinez in May 1794. He probably was from the nearby Isleños
community of Galveztown. Marie-Anne may have died near Brusly, West
Baton Rouge Parish, in November 1847; the priest who recorded her burial,
and who did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a husband,
said that Marie Anne died at "age 75 yrs.," but this Marie Anne would have
been 79.

.

Pierre-Joseph Landry, age
15, came from France in 1785 but does not appear on any of Seven Ships
passenger lists. He settled at Manchac and became a prominent member of the
community.

.

Most of the Landrys who
went to river communities in 1785 moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche, but a
few remained on the river, at Manchac, Baton Rouge, and St.-Gabriel.
Most of the lines did not survive, but one line, that of Pierre-Joseph of St.-Gabriel, was
an especially vigorous one:

Firmin-Pancrace LANDRY (1762-1813; René le jeune,
Abraham, Charles)

Firmin-Pancrace, eldest son of
Charles Landry, fils and Marguerite Boudrot, born at St.-Servan,
France, near St.-Malo, in May 1762, came to Louisiana with his family aboard
Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They
settled at Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, where he married
Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Babin, in October 1790.
Marie-Anne was a native of Louisiana. Firmin died near St. Gabriel,
Iberville Parish, in October 1813; he was only 51 years old. He and his
wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.

Louis-Abel LANDRY (1771-1822; René le jeune,
Abraham, Charles)

Louis-Abel, third son of Charles
Landry and Marguerite Boudrot, born at St.-Servan, France,
near St.-Malo, in April 1771, came to Louisiana with his family aboard Le
Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They settled at Manchac, south of Baton Rouge. Louis died near St.
Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in November 1822; he was only 51 years old. The
priest who recorded his burial said nothing about a wife for Louis, so he
probably never married.

François-Marie, sixth and youngest son
of Charles Landry and Marguerite Boudrot, baptized at Chantenay,
near Nantes,
France, age unrecorded, in November 1779, came with his family to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa,
the first of the Seven Ships, in 1785. He followed them to Manchac,
south of Baton Rouge, before moving on to upper Bayou
Lafourche, where he married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles
Babin and widow of Eusèbe Landry, at Assumption in February 1803. Constance was a native of
Louisiana. They settled in what became Ascension Parish. Their daughters married into the Babin, Landry,
Melançon, and Roth families. François
Marie remarried to Marine, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Babin, at
the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in July 1831; François Marie was 52 years old
at the time of the wedding.
They remained on the river. François Marie died in Iberville Parish in
September 1850; he was 71 years old. He seems to have had no sons who survived childhood,
so this line of the family, except for its blood, may have died with him.

A son, by his first wife, name unrecorded, died in
Ascension Parish a day after his birth in February 1809.

Jean-Baptiste-Raphaël LANDRY
(1767-?; René le jeune?, ?)

Jean-Baptiste-Raphaël, eldest son
of René Landry and Marguerite Babin, born at St.-Servan,
France, near St.-Malo, in February 1767, came to Louisiana with his family
aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, in 1785.
They settled at the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores, north of
Baton Rouge. Jean-Baptiste-Raphaël may have died young.

Descendants of Pierre LANDRY (c1776-;
René le jeune?, ?)

Pierre, second son of René
Landry and Marguerite Babin, born probably at St.-Servan, France,
near St.-Malo, in c1776, came to Louisiana with his family aboard La
Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They
settled at the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores, north of Baton
Rouge, before moving downriver to the Baton Rouge area, where Pierre married
Victoire-Eulalie, called Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Daigre, in February 1802.
Eulalie had come to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the
Seven Ships. Their daughter married into the Henry and Trahan
families. Pierre and Eulalie's only son had many sons of his own.

Pierre Julien, called
Julien, born near
Baton Rouge in October 1804, married Marguerite, daughter of Spanish Creole
Joseph Martinez, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish,
in February 1827. They settled near the boundary between East Baton
Rouge and Iberville parishes, probably north of Bayou Manchac. Their son Philippe was born in May 1828, Hermogène in August
1829, Théodore in March 1831, and Alcidonis Fare,
also called Alcide Onésiphore,in December 1832. Their
daughter married into the Rivas family.

Philippe "of East Baton Rouge
Parish" married Marie Emma Adélaïde, called Emma, daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard
LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February
1854. Their son Joseph Arnaud was born near St. Gabriel in
November 1854 but died the following February, Joseph Julien was
born in June 1858, twins Jean Enos
and Omer were born in November 1860, and Philippe,
fils was born in August 1862.

Théodore may have married
cousin Marie Lozama or Lozanna Martinez and settled in Iberville Parish by the
late 1850s. They were living near Plaquemine, on the west side of
the river, in the late 1860s.

Alcidonis/Alcide married Clara,
daughter of J. H. Rils or Rills, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville
Parish, in October 1867; Alcide was 34 years old at the time of the
wedding, so one wonders if this was his first marriage. Their son
Julian Hamilton was born near Baton Rouge in November 1868.

Pierre-Joseph, called Joseph, son of Pierre
Landry and Marie-Josèphe Hébert of Minas, born at St.-Servan,
France, near St.-Malo, in January 1770, came to Louisiana in 1785 probably
aboard one of the Seven Ships. He married Marie-Scholastique, called
Scholastique, daughter of
fellow Acadian Joseph-Charles Braud, at St.-Gabriel in June 1790.
Scholastique was a native of Louisiana. Pierre Joseph remarried to
Madeleine or Marguerite Rosalie or Rosalie Marguerite, called Rosalie and Eulalie, daughter of French Creole Bernard Capdeville, at
St. Gabriel in January 1804; Rosalie's mother was a Clouâtre.
Their daughters married into the Boush or Bush, Braud, Capdeville,
and Rivière families. During the War of 1812, Pierre-Joseph served as a captain of the 8th Company
of Meriam's Regiment of Louisiana Militia; after the war, his contemporaries
referred to him as Captain. He also was an artistic woodworker.
Pierre Joseph died
near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in March 1843; he was 73 years old.
He fathered nearly a dozen sons by his two wives. Most of his sons created
families of their own. A plaque highlighting his life and
accomplishments stands in the cemetery behind the old church at St. Gabriel.

1

Oldest son Joseph-Raphaël,
called Raphaël, from his first wife, born near St.-Gabriel in June 1791, married Joséphine, daughter of French
Creole Manuel Couillard, Cuellar, or Cueller, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish,
in June 1818. Their son Julian Raphaël was born near St.
Gabriel in January 1819 but died in February, Damase was born in
December 1819, Jean Timoléon died in December 1820 (the recording
priest said he was 14 months old, so was he Damase?), Raphaël Florentin was born in St.
James Parish in July 1821 but died at age 3 months the following October, Gustave
Raphaël
was born near St. Gabriel in December
1823, and Joseph Raphaël, fils in c1828 but died at age 3 in
September 1831. Their daughter married into the Hébert family. Joseph Raphaël, père may have died near St. Gabriel in October 1828; if so,
he would have been only 37 years old.

Gustave Raphaël married Marie Amelie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Valéry Dupuy, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in May 1849.

2

Édouard-Léandre, by his
first wife, born near
St.-Gabriel in December 1792, married Marie Eméranthe, called Eméranthe, daughter of French
Creole Jean Baptiste Lambremont, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville
Parish, in January 1816. Their son Eliezer was born near St.
Gabriel in September 1816, Jean Baptiste Raphaël in January 1818, a newborn son, name unrecorded, died in December 1823,
Ulger in c1825 or 1826 but died at age 15 or 16 in August 1841, and Valmond was born in August 1829. Their daughters married
into the Gautreaux, Landry, and Trosclair families.

Eliezer married Élodie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Dupuy, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in May 1849. Their son Joseph Alonzo
was born near St. Gabriel in September 1852.

3

Florentin, by his first
wife, born near St.-Gabriel in February 1795, married Marie Céleste Alethe, daughter of fellow
Acadian Armand Hébert and widow of Louis Mathieu Boissac, at
the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in November 1824. Their son
Florentin, fils was born near St. Gabriel in August 1825 but died at
age 12 in August 1837. Did this family line survive?

4

Lazare, also called
Azarie, Azary,
and Azory, from his first wife, born
near St.-Gabriel
in August 1798, married Marie Céline or Célestine, another daughter of Jean Baptiste
Lambremont, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January
1823. Their son Pierre Augustin was born near St. Gabriel in
April 1825, Joseph Newville or Neuville, called Neuville,in October 1826, Hermogène in
c1829, an infant son, name
and age unrecorded, died in June 1830, and twins Jean Diogène, called
Diogène, and
Paul Théodore were born in March 1835 but Paul Théodore died at age 11
months in February 1836. They also had a son named Gustave. Their daughter married into the Allain
family. Lazare died near St. Gabriel in September 1835; the
priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents'
names or even mention a wife, said that Cezary, as he called him, died at
"age 38 years"; Lazare would have been only 37, so this probably was him.

4a

Hermogène died near St.
Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in November 1847. He was only 18 years
old and probably did not marry. He was buried in St. Raphaël
Cemetery on the west bank of the river.

4b

Gustave married Emma, daughter
of fellow Acadian Victorin Allain, père, at the St. Gabriel church,
Iberville Parish, in January 1849. Their son Joseph Azarie
was born in Iberville Parish in February 1856, Joseph Charles
in March 1866, and Gustave Ignace in February 1868.

4c

Joseph Neuville may have married
Joséphine Marquette. Their son Numa was born in
Iberville Parish in June 1852 but died at age 1 in June 1853. Joseph Neuville died in Iberville
Parish in December 1854; he was only 28 years old. His line of the
family probably died with him.

4e

Diogène married Marie Alisia, Aloisa,
Aloisia, or Aloysia,
daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin Richard, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in April 1855. Their son Simon
Hermogène was born near St. Gabriel in June 1856, and twins Paul
Neuville and Vincent Théodore in July 1864. They were
living near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in the late 1860s.

5

Pierre, by his first wife,
born at Ascension in January 1802, died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish,
in April 1826. He was only 25 years old and probably did not marry.

6

Jean Esilippe or Eshinte, by his second
wife, born near St. Gabriel in November 1804, died near St. Gabriel,
Iberville Parish, in September 1823. He was only 18 years old and
probably did
not marry.

7

Lucien, by his second wife,
born in Iberville Parish in May 1808, married Marie
Madeleine Delphine, also called Mary Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Élie LeBlanc, at the
St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1839. They settled near
Plaquemine on the west bank of the river. Their son
Joseph Lucien was born in January 1840 but died the
following August, Théophile was born in February 1842, Élie
Murat in May 1843, Armand in March 1848, Octave in August
1851, Romain Nemour in August 1856, and Prevost in September
1859. Their daughter married into the Bernard (German or French
Creole, not Acadian) family.

8

Eugène, by his second wife,
born in Iberville Parish in June 1810, married Marguerite
Adrienne, called Adrienne, daughter fellow Acadian Jean Élie Hébert, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1835. They settled on the
west side of the river along Bayou Maringouin, at the eastern edge of the
Atchafalaya Basin. Their son Eugène,
fils was born in August 1836, Césaire
in June 1838, Luc Valaze or Valazin in November 1841, and Joseph Aristide
in December 1843 but died at age 10 1/2 in June 1854.

8a

Césaire married Marie Cordelia,
daughter of German Creole Jacques Trosclair, at the Plaquemine
church, Iberville Parish, in January 1869.

8b

Luc Valaze, called L. Valaze
by the recording priest, married Ermance, daughter of Charles F.
Lefeaux, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in February
1869.

9

Benjamin Achille, called
Achille, by his second wife, born in Iberville Parish in
March 1812, married cousin Aurore, daughter of Joseph Landry, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in August 1833. Their son Théodore Erval
died near St. Gabriel, age 1 month, in October 1834. Benjamin
Achille remarried to Ada Cécile Pauline or Pauline Cécile,
also called Marie Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Braud, at the St. Gabriel church in
December 1836. Their son Joseph Amédée, called Amédée,was born near St. Gabriel in
October 1837, Volney Grégoire or Grégoire Volney, in May 1842, and Pierre Mazaire
in July 1847. They also had an older son named Florian T. Benjamin Achille died near St. Gabriel in October 1854;
he was only 42 years old.

9a

During the War of 1861, Volney Grégoire, by his second wife, called
Volney H. in Confederate records, served in Company A of the 1st
Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and
Louisiana. Volney enlisted at Camp Schlatre, Louisiana, in August
1861, age 19, but he did not serve out the war with his regiment.
In the summer of 1862, when his regiment was in eastern Tennessee, he
was discharged from the service, probably for medical reasons, and went
home. He married Henrietta, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph
Richard, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in October
1865. Their son Joseph Benjamin was born in Iberville
Parish in June 1866.

9b

Florian T., by his second
wife, married Marie Marcelline, called Marcelline, daughter of Adonis Petit, at the
Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in June 1866. Their son
Benjamin Alcée was born near Plaquemine in March 1867.

9c

Joseph Amédée, by his second
wife, married Marie Louise Eléonide, daughter of Joseph Besson, at the
St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in September 1867; Marie's mother
was a Richard. Their son Henry was born in Iberville
Parish in December 1869.

10

Louis Onésime, called
Onésime, from his
second wife, born in Iberville Parish in August 1817, married Joséphine,
daughter of German Creole Alexandre Hotard, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, February 1850; Onésime was 32 years old at the
time of the wedding. Their son J. Montéléon
died in Iberville Parish, age 16 months, in September 1852, Jean Aramis
was born in December 1852 but died at age 4 1/2 in August 1857, twins
Alexandre Athos and Pierre Pathos were born in May 1855 but
Alexandre died at age 1 in August 1856, and André Ascanio was born in
December 1856 but died the following July.

11

Youngest son Magloire, by his second
wife, born in Iberville Parish in October 1820, married
Marie Dulcinée, daughter of French Creole Pierre Michel Lambremont,
at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in July 1843; Marie's mother
was a Braud. Their son Pierre Misael was born in
Iberville Parish in March 1844, Joseph Alonzo in January 1849, and Gille
in c1850 but died at age 4 in October 1854.
Their daughter married a Braud cousin. Magloire remarried to Marie Elena, Eline, or Elina, daughter of fellow Acadian Dorville
Braud, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in August 1854.
They settled at Bayou Goula on the west bank of the river. Their son Magloire Raphaël, called Raphaël,was born
in April
1855 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1858 and was buried in St. Raphaël
Cemetery near Bayou Goula, and Joseph Aristide was born in June 1866.

~

Two Landry brothers whose families moved to Bayou Lafourche during
the early antebellum period remained
on the Acadian Coast, and, in a reversal of the usual Acadian migration
pattern, other Landrysmoved from upper
Bayou Lafourche to
the river during the same period. These families settled in Ascension
and West Baton Rouge parishes:

Jean Louis le jeune, eldest
son of Pierre-Alexis Landry and Rosalie Hébert, born at
St.-Gabriel in August 1787, married cousin Anne Marine or Marianne, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Hébert
and sister of brother Armand's wife, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton
Rouge Parish, in April 1812. They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.
Their daughters married into the Enger, Seguin, Thibodeaux, and
Trahan
families.

1

Older son Séraphin, born
probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in June 1817, may have died young.

2

Younger son Jean Louis Raphaël,
was born probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in March 1832.

Armand Apollinaire, third son of
Pierre-Alexis Landry and Rosalie Hébert, born at Ascension in
July 1792, married cousin
Marie Marthe, called Marthe, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Hébert
and sister of brother Jean-Louis's wife, at the St.-Gabriel church,
Iberville Parish, in April 1817. They settled in West Baton Rouge
Parish. Their daughters married into the Bergeron, Dupuis,
and Ferbos families. Did Armand father any sons?

Alexandre, eldest son of
Jean-Baptiste Landry and Marie-Madeleine Hébert, born in Ascension Parish in
September 1791, married Judith or Juliette, daughter of fellow Acadian Jérôme Melançon, at
the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1822. They
settled in Ascension Parish. Their daughters married into the Babin,
Gautreaux,
and Hébert families.

1

Oldest
son Jérôme,born in Ascension Parish in September 1823,
likely married fellow Acadian Julia Anne Brasset and settled in
Ascension Parish by the late 1840s. Their son Albert Jérôme was
born in Ascension Parish in December 1858, Alexis Robraud in November
1860, Alexandre in January 1863, and Alcée Prudent near
Gonzales in May 1868. Their daughter married into the Salassi
family.

2

Vincent de Paul wasborn in Ascension Parishin July 1829.

3

Joseph Gustave wasborn in Ascension Parishin October 1831 but died there at age 5 in October 1836.

4

Florian Alexandre
was born in Ascension Parish in November 1833 but died there at age
11 months in October 1834.

5

Joseph Mortimer, called
Mortimer,born in Ascension Parishin July 1835, married fellow Acadian Lodoisque or Lodoiska, Braud at the Donalsonville church,
Ascension Parish, in February 1862. They settled near Gonzales. Their son Janvier Mortimer
was born in January 1863 but died at age 1 1/2 in August
1864, Pierre Antoine was born in early 1865, and
Philippe Alphonse in January 1867.

6

Jean Homere,perhaps
called Homere or Omer, was born in
Ascension Parishin November 1837. One wonders if he was the
Omer Landry who died in Ascension Parish in August 1865; the
Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to
give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Omer died at "age
30 years," but Jean Homere would have been only 27.

7

Hercule Alexandre or
Alexandre Hercules, born in
Ascension Parish in August 1841, married Alouisa, Alouisia, or Alysia, daughter of French Creole
Amédée Blouin, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in February
1864; Alouisa's mother was a Gaudet. Their son Léon Sidney
was born near Gonzales in April 1865, and Michel Amédée in June
1867.

8

Youngest son Right St. Landry
was born in Ascension Parish in May 1847.

Joseph-Alexandre, fils,
eldest son of Joseph-Alexandre and Céleste Hébert, born
at Assumption in February 1797, married cousin Anne Emeranthe,
called Emeranthe, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexis
Hébert, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in
February 1825. They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their
daughters married Hébert cousins, one of them on Bayou Teche.

1

Oldest son Joseph Achille
was born in Assumption Parish in November 1825 but died there at age 7
months the following June.

Joseph Octave, third son of Jean
Jacques Landry and Marie Louise Dugas, born in
Assumption Parish in June 1815, married Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow
Acadian Nicolas Orillion, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension
Parish, in January 1834. Their daughter married a Dugas cousin.
Joseph Octave remarried to Marie Thérèsine or Thérèse, daughter of
fellow Acadian Joseph Braud, at the Donaldsonville church in August
1850. Their daughter married a Landry cousin at Gonzales.

1

Oldest son Joseph Octave, fils,
by his first wife, was born in Ascension Parish in c1834 but died at age 2
1/2 in September 1837.

2

Joseph Augustin, by his
first wife, was born in Ascension Parish in March 1835.

3

Jean Adélard or Allard,
by his first wife, was born in Ascension Parish in December 1836 but died at age 15 months
in March 1838.

~

Other LANDRYs on the River

Area church and civil records make
it difficult to link many Landrys on the river with known lines of
the family there. The priests at St. Gabriel, Brusly, and Donaldsonville were especially negligent
in their recordkeeping. One suspects that some of the Landrys who lived on the river during
the post-war period were Afro Creoles once owned by Acadian Landrys::

Isaac Landry married fellow
Acadian Anne
Aucoin and settled near Baton Rouge. Their daughter
married into the Daigle family.

Joseph Landry married
fellow Acadian Anne-Marthe Blanchard and settled near Baton Rouge. Their
daughter married into the Hébert family.

Joseph Landry married
fellow Acadian Anastasie LeBlanc and settled at Ascension. Their daughter
married into the Theriot family.

Pierre Landry married
fellow Acadian Anne
Theriot and settled near Baton Rouge. Their daughter
married into the Dupuis family.

Joseph-Athanase Landry
married fellow Acadian Madeleine Babin.
Their daughter married into the Theriot family. Joseph Athanase
died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in May 1815. The priest who
recorded his burial, and did not bother to give his parents' names or even
mention a wife, said that Joseph Athanse, as he called him, died at "age 40
yrs."

____ Landry married _____
Gomez at New Orleans in January 1768. One wonders if this was
Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Landry, who married ship's
surgeon Thomas Comes at New Orleans in 1768.

Augustin-Pierre Landry died
at Ascension in February 1784. He was only 3 years old. The
priest who recorded the boy's burial did not bother to give the parents'
names.

Anselme Landry married
fellow Acadian Françoise Blanchard and settled at Ascension. Their son Rénard
was baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in January 1786. Their
daughter Françoise married into the Babin
and Braud families.

Ursule Landry died at
Ascension in January 1786. The priest who recorded her burial did not
say anything more about her--no parents' names, no husband's name
if she had one, no age at the time of her death, only her name and the date
of her burial.

Isabelle Landry died at
Ascension in October 1786. Again, the priest who recorded her burial
did not bother to say anything more about her--no parents' names, no
husband's name if she had one, no age at the time of her death, only her
name and the date of her burial.

Jean Landry married fellow
Acadian Anne
Mire and settled at Ascension in the late 1780s.

René-Marie, son of Pierre
Landry and Marie ____, was baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded,
in January 1788. The priest who recorded his burial duly noted the
boy's parents' names, but the ravages of time damaged the old parish
register, and René-Marie's mother's surname was obliterated. Which
Pierre Landry was his father?

Madeleine Landry gave birth
to a son, name unrecorded, at Ascension, but the boy died an infant in
August 1788. The priest who recorded the infant's burial did not give
the father's name.

Marie Landry died at
Ascension in January 1790. The priest who recorded her burial noted
that she was 72 years old, but he did not give her parents'
names or mention a husband.

Marguerite, daughter of Athanase
Landry, married François-Xavier _____, son of Joseph _____
and Anne Hébert of St.-Malo, France, at St.-Gabriel in July 1790.
Unfortunately, the collection of sacramental records for the Diocese of
Baton Rouge, from which this marriage record is taken, fails to give the
groom's surname.

Joseph Landry died at
Ascension in October 1790. He was only 19 months old. The priest
who recorded the boy's burial did not give the parents' names.

Marguerite-Apolline, called
Apolline, daughter of Joseph Landry, married Simon-Raphaël, son of
fellow Acadian Amand Babin, at Ascension in January 1796. The priest who
recorded the marriage did not bother to include the parents' names, which
were obtained from other records. One wonders if Marguerite-Apolline
was an immigrant or a native of Louisiana.

Anne Landry died at
Ascension in August 1804. The priest who recorded her burial did not
give her age or her parents' names or mention a husband.
One wonders if she was an immigrant or a native of Louisiana.

Joseph Landry, "called
Chinoua," died at Ascension in March 1805. The priest who recorded his
burial, and who did not give his parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph dit Chinoua was 51 years old when he died.

Marie Marthe, daughter of Joseph
Landry, married Antoine, son of French Creole Louis Léonard,
at St.-Gabriel in February 1806. The priest who recorded the marriage
did not give Marie Marthe's mother's name, so one wonders which
Joseph Landry was her father.

Augustin, son of Joseph Landry
"of Plaquemine settlement," died probably at Plaquemine,
present-day Iberville Parish,
in March 1806. He was only 20 years old and probably did not marry. The
St. Gabriel priest who recorded his burial did not give Augustin's
mother's name, so one wonders which Joseph Landry was his father.

Pierre, son of Joseph Landry
"of Plaquemine settlement," died probably at Plaquemine, present-day
Iberville Parish, in April 1806. He was only 23 years old and probably did not marry. The
St. Gabriel priest who recorded his burial did not give Pierre's
mother's name, so, again, one wonders which Joseph Landry was his
father.

Joseph Landry, "age 50 of
Plaquemine settlement," died probably at Plaquemine, present-day Iberville
Parish, in August 1806. The St. Gabriel priest who recorded this
Joseph's burial did not give his parents' names or mention a wife.
One wonders if he was Augustin and Pierre's father.

Joseph Landry, "age 46,
res. of Plaquemine settlement," died probably at Plaquemine, present-day
Iberville Parish, in September 1806. The St. Gabriel priest who
recorded this Joseph's burial did not give his parents' names or
mention a wife. One wonders if he was Augustin's and Pierre's father.

Siméon Landry died in
Ascension Parish 7 days after his birth in February 1808. The priest
who recorded the boy's burial did not give the parents' names.

Pierre, fils, son of Pierre
Landry and Anne Gautreaux, married Marie Rosalie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Templet, at Baton Rouge in June 1808.

Joseph Landry, "dit
Jones, age 50, from Attakapas District," died near St. Gabriel, Iberville
Parish, in January 1809. The priest who recorded Joseph's burial
did not give his parents' names or mention a wife.

Marie, daughter of René Landry
and ____ LeBlanc, died in Ascension Parish in October 1809. The
recording priest noted that she was "nat. Acadia" and 56 years old when she
died, but he did not mention a husband. Who was she?

Nicolas Landry married
Marguerite Chinon. Their son, name unrecorded, died in
Ascension Parish, age 4 months, in January 1812. Was Marguerite kin to
Joseph Landrydit Chinoua?

____ Landry, "Husband of
Tamy Landry," died in Ascension Parish in February 1815. This
is all that the priest recorded.

Jean Baptiste Landry, an
orphan, was baptized at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, at age 8 in
July 1817. The priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give
the parents' names.

Félix Landry was baptized
at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, 5 or 6 days after his birth in
September 1817. The priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not
give the parents' names.

François, son of Jean Landry
and Anne Landry, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Lun.
Their son Élias was born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in May
1824.

Victorine Landry married
Philippe, son of fellow Acadian Jean Charles Comeaux, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1825. The priest who
recorded the marriage did not give the bride's parents' names.

Donat Landry married
Ludivine LeBlanc and died by June 1825, when his wife remarried in
Ascension Parish. Was he the Donat Landry who died near St.
Gabriel, Iberville Parish, at age 70 in March 1824? If he was that
Donat, and the priest recorded his age correctly, he would have born in
c1754--in Acadia. No Donat Landry appears on the Acadian
Memorial's Wall of Names, however, so the age is probably exaggerated.

Séverin Landry died near
St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in July 1826. He was only 3 years old.
The priest who recorded the boy's burial did give the parents'
names.

Raphaël Landry died near
St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1828. Their priest who
recorded his burial did not give Raphaël's parents' names, mention a wife,
or even give his age at the time of his death.

Ferdinand Landry died in
Ascension Parish at age 1 in January 1829. The Donaldsonville priest
who recorded the boy's burial did not give the parents' names.
One wonders if the boy's parents were Ferdinand Landry and Clarisse
Landry.

Irma Landry married Joseph
Garlick at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1830.
The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents'
names.

Joseph dit Jonny Landry died in
Ascension Parish in February 1832. The Donaldsonville priest who recorded his burial,
and who did not give his parents' names or mention a wife,
said that Joseph Jonny was 30 years old when he died.

Pierre, son of Joseph Landry,
died in Ascension Parish, age 3, in March 1834. The Donaldsonville
priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give his mother's
name.

Raphaël Landry died in
Ascension Parish at age 3 in September 1834. The Donaldsonville priest
who recorded the boy's burial did not give the parents' names.

Firmin Landry married
cousin Marie Felonise or Léonise Landry. Their son Joseph Audibert
was born in Ascension Parish in January 1835.

Rosémond Landry died in
Ascension Parish in March 1835. The Donaldsonville priest who recorded
his burial, and who did not give his parents' names or mention a wife, said that Rosémond was 25 years old when he died.

Désiré Landry married
fellow Acadian Phelonise Dugas. Their son Jacques Théodule was born in
Ascension Parish in May 1835.

Émilie, perhaps Émile, Simon
Théodore Landry died in Ascension Parish in September 1835. The
Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial said that "Émilie" was 23
years old when she/he died but did not give any parents' names
or mention a husband or wife.

Valéry Landry died in
Ascension Parish in October 1835. The Donaldsonville priest who
recorded his burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or mention a
wife, said that Valéry was 26 years old when he died.

Clementine Landry married
21-year-old François Tolmer at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension
Parish, in October 1835. The priest who recorded the marriage did not
give the
couple's parents' names.

Jean Landry married fellow
Acadian Céleste Arceneaux. Their son Victorin Martin was
born in Ascension Parish in July 1836.

Isidore Landry died in
Ascension Parish in March 1837. He was only a year old. The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the boy's burial did
not give the parents' names.

Raphaël, son of Édouard Landry,
died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in January 1838. He was
only 18 years old when he died and probably did not marry. The priest
who recorded Raphaël's burial did not give his mother's name.

Trasimond Landry died in
Ascension Parish in November 1839. The Donaldsonville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or mention a
wife, said that Trasimond died at "age 24 yrs."

Marie Iréné Landry, wife of
Pierre Landry, died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in December
1840, age 56. Which Pierre Landry was this, and who were Marie
Iréné's parents?

Delmire Landry gave birth
to son Pierre Onésiphore probably in Iberville Parish in December
1840. The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the boy's baptism in June
1846 did not give the father's name or the mother's parents' names. (I am assuming that Delmire
was a woman.)

Marguerite Landry's son
Victor died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1841.
The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give a father's name or
mention a wife, said that Victor died at "age ca. 26 years." Did
Victor ever marry?

Hippolyte Landry died in
Ascension Parish in August 1841. The Donaldsonville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
even mention a wife, said that Hippolyte died at "age 58 years."

Joseph Landry died in
Ascension Parish in August 1844. The Donaldsonville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
even mention a wife, said that Joseph died at "age 36 years."

Joseph P. Landry married
Ursule Mathilde Daigre and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish by the
late 1840s.

Madeleine Landry married
Leon Strong, probably an Anglo American, at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in January 1848. The priest who recorded the
marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.

Félicité Landry gave birth
to son Antoine Jumonville in Ascension Parish in October 1849.
The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the boy's baptism the following March
did not give the father's name or the mother's parents' names.

Rosémond Landry married
Anaïse Corvaisier. Their son François Gervais was born
in Ascension Parish in October 1849. Was he the Rosémond Landry
who died in
Ascension Parish in November 1852? The Donaldsonville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
even mention a wife, said that Rosémond died at "age 35 years."

Vincent P. Landry married
Celina Landry and settled in Ascension Parish by the early 1850s.
Their son Vincent L. was born in Ascension Parish in July 1857.

Jack Landry married Mary
Ann Hicky. Their son Lewis William was born "at New
Hope, West Baton Rouge Parish" in December 1850. Was Jack Acadian?

Pierre Marcellin, called
Marcellin, Landry
married Anglo American Mary Ann or Anna, called Anna, Stringer in a Presbyterian ceremony
perhaps in Iberville Parish during the early 1850s.
Their son Charles Édouard was born probably in Iberville Parish in
November 1853 and baptized at the St. Gabriel church the following July, Ernest Whiteman was born in June 1857 and
baptized in August, Louis Henry was born in June 1864, and a son, name and age unrecorded, may have died in
July 1867. Judging by their children's' baptismal records, the family seems to have embraced Roman Catholicism.

Calon Landry married Nancy
Hébert. Their son Faustin Jovite was born near Brusly,
West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1851.

Benjamin dit Beny Landry
married Madeleine Landry. Their son Basile Nicolas was
born near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in March 1851.

Hippolyte Landry died in
Ascension Parish in May 1851. True to form, the Donaldsonville priest
who recorded his burial did not bother to give any parents' names, mention a
wife, or even give Hippolyte's age at the time of his death.

Jean Théodule, called Théodule, son of Hippolyte
Landry and Marie Lucille ____, married Marie Roselia, daughter of Pierre
Cleborn, also called Pierre, perhaps her father's given name,
at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in December 1851.
Their son Jean Ernest Athos
was born in Ascension Parish in October 1852, and Arthur Théodule
posthumously in
August 1856 but died at age 2 1/2 in March 1859. Jean Théodule died in
Ascension Parish in June 1856; the Donaldsonville priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a
wife, said that Jean Théodule died at "age 30 years."

Charles, son of Philippe Landry,
died in Ascension Parish in June 1852. The Donaldsonville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give the mother's name, said
that Charles died at "age 14 years." Which Philippe Landry was
this?

Adolphe Landry died near
Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in November 1853. The priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, said
that Adolphe died at "age 18 yrs."

Jean Baptiste Landry,
fils married Marie Octavie Daunois, perhaps Daunis.
Their son Théophile Richard was born in Ascension Parish in February
1854. They were living near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, a year or
so later and near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, later in the decade. Which
Jean Baptiste Landry was Jean Baptiste, fils's father?

Louis F. Landry died in
Ascension Parish in September 1855. The Donaldsonville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
mention a wife, said that Louis F. died at "age 57 years." Who was he?

Joseph Landry died in
Ascension Parish in August 1856. The Donaldsonville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
even mention a wife, said that Joseph died at "age 48 years."

Adolphe Landry married
Marie Telcide, called Telcide, daughter of David Bergeron, probably a
French Creole, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May 1857.
They settled near Gonzales. Their son Laurent Ulger was born in
October 1870.

Marie Félicie Landry
married Anglo American Celicour Hamilton at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in May 1857. Yet again, the priest who
recorded the marriage did not bother to give the couple's parents' names.

Eugène Landry married
Spanish Creole Teresa Martinez. Their son Pierre Étienne
was born in Ascension Parish in August 1857.

Théodore Landry married
French Creole Joséphine Tulier, also called Doliere and
Teliel. Their son Louis Ed. was
born in Ascension Parish in October 1857. They were living near
Gonzales in the early 1860s.

Zéphirin Landry married
Lelee Blanchard, probably a fellow Acadian. Their son
Guillaume was born near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in September
1859.

Félix Landry married Marie
Anger and settled in Ascension Parish by 1860.

Doralise Landry gave birth
to son Joseph Edmund near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in February
1860. The priest who recorded the boy's baptism in March did not give
the father's name or the mother's parents' names. Was Doralise
Acadian?

J. B., probably Jean Baptiste,
Landry married Marie Octavie Benoit, perhaps a fellow Acadian.
Their son Joseph Albert was born near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish,
in April 1860.

Camille Landry died in
Ascension Parish in June 1860. The Donaldsonville priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or mention a
wife, said that Camille died at "age 52 years." So who were his
parents, and did he marry?

Léon Landry married fellow
Acadian Augustine Babin and settled near Brusly, West Baton Rouge
Parish, by the early 1860s.

Thiburse Landry married
cousin Marie Élisabeth Landry in the early 1860s. She died in
Ascension Parish in August 1864, only 25 years old. One wonders which
Thiburse Landry this may have been.

Amédé Landry married Louisa
Bourgeois, probably a fellow Acadian and settled near Vacherie, St.
James Parish, by the mid-1860s.

John Landry married cousin
Clemente, perhaps Clementine, Landry and settled in Ascension Parish
by the mid-1860s.

Anastasie Landry's son Antoine
Lucien was baptized at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish,
age 3 months, in February 1865. The priest who recorded the boy's
burial did not give the father's name nor the mother's parents' names.

James Landry married Elisa
Marcel and settled in Ascension Parish by the late 1860s.

Joseph Landry died in
Ascension Parish in February 1866 and was buried "at the cemetery at 'la
Prairie,'" now Prairieville. The Gonzales priest who recorded the
burial did not bother to give any parents' names, mention a wife, or even
give Joseph's age at the time of his death.

Mary Landry married Charles
Washington at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in July
1866. The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give the
couple's
parents' names. Was Mary Acadian?

Benjamin Landry died near
Baton Rouge in October 1866. The priest who recorded the burial did
not bother to give any parents' names or even the age of the deceased.

Theresa Landry married
Anglo American Omer Richardson at the St. James church, St. James
Parish, in February 1867. The priest who recorded the marriage did not
bother to give the couple's parents' names.

Augustine Landry married
fellow Acadian Joseph Dugas at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension
Parish, in August 1867. The priest who recorded the marriage did not
bother to give the couple's parents' names.

Bossiere Landry died in
Iberville Parish in October 1867. The St. Gabriel priest who recorded
the burial did not bother to give any parents' names or even the age of the
deceased.

Marie Landry married Lucien
Lyne civilly, and sanctified the marriage at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in 1868. The priest who recorded the
marriage did not bother to give the couple's parents' names.

Frances Landry married
Victor Gravois at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in
June 1868. The priest who recorded the marriage did not
bother to give the couple's parents' names.

Jean Baptiste Landry
married Marie Marguerite St. Martin. Their son Jean Baptiste
Samuel was born in Ascension Parish in October 1868.

Edward Landry married
Anastasie Ricard. Their son Paul Benjamin was born near
Baton Rouge in January 1869.

Octave Landry married
Nathalie Acosta at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in
May 1869. The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give
the couple's parents' names.

Paul Rosémond Landry
married Augustine Babin at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension
Parish, in May 1869. The priest who recorded the marriage did not
bother to give the couple's parents' names. Their son Jean Lucien
Rosémond had been born in Ascension Parish in February 1867, so they
probably married civilly years before their church marriage.

Ursin Landry married Rose
Landry. Their son Norbert S. was born in Ascension
Parish in August 1869.

Catherine Landry married
Henry Richard at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in
October 1869. The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to
give the couple's parents' names.

Gédéon Landry married
Suza[nne?] ____. Their son Adam Anthony was born in
Ascension Parish in October 1869. Was Gédéon Acadian?

Irma Landry married
Dominique Duplessis at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in
February 1870. True to form, the priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to
give the couple's parents' names.

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Landry families that lived on the river
during the antebellum period cannot be linked by local church records to other Landrys in the area:

Descendants of Éloi Joseph
LANDRY (?-; René
le jeune?)

Éloi Joseph Landry married
fellow Acadian Madeleine Cidalise or Sidalise Babin, also called a Landry,
probably in Iberville Parish during the early antebellum period. Their daughter married into
the Babin family.

1

Older son Norbert "of Iberville" married first cousin Elisa, Eliza,
or Lisa
Cécile, daughter of Auguste Hyacinthe Landry, at
the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1839; Elisa's
mother was a Babin; they had to secure a dispensation for
second degree of consanguinity in order to marry. They settled
at La Prairie, perhaps today's Prairieville, near the boundary between
Ascension and Iberville parishes. Their son
Eustache Butler was born in September 1845.
Their daughters married into the Babin and Marchand families.

2

Younger son Joseph Napoléon,
called J. Napoléon,
born in Ascension Parish in October 1833, married Marie Célestine, called
Célestine and also Euphrosine, daughter
of Acadian Valéry Dupuy, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension
Parish, in September 1853. They settled near Gonzales. Their son Eustache Botteler was born
in September 1855, Nestor Stephen in August 1864, Joseph
in August 1865, and Jean Moïse in February 1868.

Descendants of Valière LANDRY
(c1823-?; René
le jeune?)

Valière Landry, born in
c1823, married cousin Marie Adèle, called Adèle, teenage daughter of Dorville Landry, at the Brusly church,
Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1845. Their daughter married a Dupuy
cousin. Valière remarried to Mary Virginia, daughter of fellow Acadian
Joseph Ducatel Blanchard, at the Brusly church in October 1885; Mary
Virginia was a sister of Valière's son Émile's wife Cécile; Valière was in
his early 60s at the time of the wedding.

1

Oldest son François Osward or Oscar,
by his first wife, born near Brusly in July 1846, married Victoria, daughter
of Spanish Creole Emmanuel Lopez,
at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1867;
Victoria's mother was a Babin.

2

Dorville Émile, called
Émilie,by his first wife, born near Brusly in April 1849,
married Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Ducatel Blanchard,
at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in January 1870; Cécile's sister
Mary Virginia would later marry Émile's father.

3

Youngest son Joseph Alcée,
by his first wife, born near Brusly in August 1851, married Marie Ophelia,
daughter of French Creole Lucien Marrionneaux, at the Baton Rouge
church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1873.

LOUISIANA: WESTERN
SETTLEMENTS

The first Landrys to go to the western prairies--a young husband and two young girls--came to Louisiana from Halifax via
Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in February 1765 with the Broussarddit
Beausoleil party. They followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche, but the young husband did not remain there:

Mathurin Landry, age 28,
came with wife Marie Dugas. Marie was pregnant when they
reached Louisiana and gave birth to a son, Isidore, on the Teche in late
July 1765. Marie died two days after Isidore was born, probably from
complications of childbirth. Isidore died the following September,
perhaps a victim of the epidemic that killed dozens of Teche
Acadians that summer and fall. After his son died, Mathurin fled with dozens
of
his fellow Acadians to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where Spanish officials
counted him on the right, or west, bank of the Mississippi in April 1766.
He did not return to the western prairies but remained with his kinsmen on
the river, where he remarried.

Anne Landry, age 11, and
her sister Isabelle, age unrecorded, daughters of Jean Landry, came
with their mother Madeleine Broussard, age unrecorded, and stepfather Olivier Thibodeau, age 32. Their mother died giving
birth to their half-sister Marguerite-Anne Thibodeau only a few weeks
after they settled on Bayou Teche; their mother and sister, in fact, were the first Acadians to die
west of the Atchafalaya Basin. Anne married Joseph, son of fellow
Acadian Michel Doucet, at Attakapas in July 1772. Isabelle may
have died young.

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It did not take long for a Landry
to establish a western branch of the family. In c1770, an exile
from Maryland left St.-Jacques on the river and settled in the Attakapas
District, where he created a vigorous family line. Two of his older
daughters married Beausoleil Broussards but died young:

Hélène, wife of Amand Broussarddit Beausoleil,
son of Joseph, died
before October 1774, when her husband was listed in an Attakapas census as a
widower.

Marie-Madeleine, wife of René Broussard
dit Beausoleil,grandson of
Joseph, died before January
1779, when her husband remarried at Attakapas.

Descendants of Firmin LANDRY
(c1728-1801; René le jeune, Germain)

Firmin, son of Alexandre Landry
and Marie-Marguerite Blanchard, born at Pigiguit in c1728, married Élisabeth-Françoise Thibodeau
at Pigiguit in c1752.
Three years later, the British deported them to Maryland. Colonial officials
counted them at Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, in July 1763. Firmin came to Louisiana
probably in 1766,
a widower with four children and, with the majority of his fellow
passengers, settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river, but he
did not remain there. He remarried to Théotiste dite Sally,
daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Thibodeaux and widow of
Bonaventure Godin, at either St.-Jacques or Attakapas in c1769.
Théotiste, a widow with a small daughter, had come to Louisiana from Halifax
in 1765 and had remained with her in-laws on the Acadian Coast.
Firmin's was the first Landry family to remain west of the
Atchafalaya Basin. He and Théotiste settled on upper Bayou Vermilion and
also had land at Fausse Pointe on
lower Bayou Teche. Théotiste gave him many more
children, including sons. Firmin's daughters
by his first wife married into the Broussard family;
his daughters by his second wife married into the Boudreaux, Lapointe, Louvière,
Perault, Quebedeaux, and Ransonet families. Firmin "died suddenly"
at Attakapas in February 1801; the priest who recorded his burial said that
Firmin was "60 and 16 years," or 76 years old, when he died.
His was not only the first but also one of the largest Landry family lines
established on
the prairies.

1

Oldest son Joseph, by his
first wife, born in Acadia in c1752, married fellow Acadian Marie-Anne,
called Marine, daughter of perhaps Paul Melançon, at Opelousas or Attakapas
in the late 1770s. Marine was a native of Maryland. They
settled at Côte Gelée and on Bayou Vermilion. Their son Joseph, fils was baptized at
Opelousas, age unrecorded, in May 1779, Louis, called Agricole,at age 13 months in
April 1780, Cyrille was born at Attakapas in February 1787,
Joseph-Denis, called
Denis,in December 1788, Pantaléon in c1790, and
Maximien or Maximilien, called Maxille dit Simien or
Similien, was baptized at age 5 months in November 1795. Their daughters married
into the Babin, Bourg, Duhon, Durio, Prejean, Thibodeaux, and Trahan families,
and
at least one of them settled on the river.
Joseph, père died probably at Côte Gelée in June 1797; the priest
who recorded his burial said that Joseph was 47 years old when he died.

1a

Agricole married Christine or
Emeline,
daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Labauve, at Attakapas in
February 1801. They settled at La Grand Pointe on upper Bayou
Teche and then on the Vermilion. Their son Camille was born
on the Vermilion in December 1807, Agricole, fils in December
1811 but died at age 1 in December 1812, Hilaire was born in
September 1813, Désiré in July 1815, and Émile in November
1818. Their daughters married into the Broussard, Dugas,
and Landry families. Agricole "died suddenly and by accident at
the home of Éloy Dugas at La fausse pointe" in November 1819; he
was only 39 years old; his succession records were filed at the St.
Martinville courthouse in December 1821 and the Vermilionville
courthouse in June 1829.

Désiré married Marie
Mélicère, called Mélicère, daughter of Louis Benjamin Lafenetre, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1836. Their
son Anatole was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4
months, in October 1837, Ursin was born in November 1840, and
a son, name unrecorded, died at age 3 months in September 1857.
Their daughter married into the Menard family.

Anatole likely
married Azéma Dubois, perhaps a fellow Acadian, at the
Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in October 1858. Their
son Delma was born near Abbeville in August 1859, and a
child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died at age 15 days in
January 1866.

Ursin married
Élisabeth, daughter of French Creole Eugène Meaux, at the
Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1869;
Élisabeth's mother was a Trahan. They settled on
the lower Vermilion. Sylvanie, perhaps a son, was
born in August 1869.

Émile married Aspasie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Louis André Richard, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1839.
Their son André, called Andéol and Andréol,was born in Lafayette Parish in September 1842, and Jules
Agricole near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in December 1854.
They also had a son named Désiré. Their daughters married into the Mayer and Quebedeaux families. Émile may have died in August 1855; the Abbeville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents'
names or even mention a wife, said that Émile died "at age 35 yrs.
at Bayou Tigre"; this Émile would have been 36, so this probably was
him. Bayou Tigre is at the edge of the coastal marsh south of
present-day Delcambre, Vermilion Parish.

During the War of 1861 Andéol, called
Andriol in Confederate records, may have served in Company A
of the 29th (Thomas's) Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in
St. Landry Parish, that fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Andéol married Azéma,
daughter of German Creole Louis Taylor, formerly
Teller, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in
December 1863. Andéol remarried to Alida, daughter of
Jean Miller, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in
May 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church
in June; Alida's mother was a Boudreaux.

Désiré married
Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Mouton, at the
Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1870.

Hilaire married Marie
Emetile, daughter of Anglo American Robert Bell and widow of
Aurelien Broussard, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish
in February 1840. Did the family line survive?

1b

Joseph Denis married
Élisabeth, called Lise, daughter of fellow Acadian François Labauve of Vermilion,
at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1809.
Their Joseph, fils was born on the Vermilion in April 1815 but
died at age 3 1/2 in January 1819, a son, name unrecorded, died at his
parents' home 9 days after his birth in October 1817, Camille was
born in May 1819, Léo was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, age 2 months, 2 days, in November 1828, a child, name unrecorded,
perhaps a son, died at age 15 days in April 1836, and Delma
or Adelma
was baptized at age 4 in May 1840. Their
daughters married into the Blanchard and Thibodeaux
families, one of them in Iberville Parish. His youngest son also
settled in Iberville Parish.

Camille married
Clementine, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Dugas, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1838.
Their son Paulin was baptized at the Vermilionville church,
age 4 months, in October 1839 but died at age 2 in August 1841,
Onésime was born in January 1842, and Adrien near New
Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in July 1844,
Joseph near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in December 1855, and Charles
in June 1858.

Adelma married Victoria,
daughter of fellow Acadian Paulin Dupuy, at the Plaquemine
church, Iberville Parish, in July 1861.

Léo may have married
fellow Acadian Elmire Brasseaux and settled near Abbeville,
Vermilion Parish, by the early 1850s. Their son Joseph
Denis was born near Abbeville in February 1862.

1c

Pantaléon married Marguerite,
daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Trahan of Vermilion, at the St.
Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1810. Their son
Jean Joachim, called
Joachim, was born on the lower Vermilion in October 1810.
Their daughter married into the Gerard and Kirkham
families and perhaps into the Trahan family as well. Pantaléon remarried to French Creole Susanne Rayon
or Rion of St. Landry
Parish in the 1820s. Their son
Joseph was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish,
age 4, in May 1833, and Jacob was born near Grand Coteau, St.
Landry Parish, in December 1836.

Jean Joachim, by his first
wife, married Marguerite Carmelite, called Carmelite, daughter of Charles Cohem, Cohen,
Come,
Comme, Comb, Combe, or Combs, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1836.
Their son Numa was born in St. Martin Parish in June 1841, Luca
in March 1843, Lucien in February 1846, and Omer
in July 1848. Jean Joachim died in St.
Martin Parish in January 1850; he was only 39 years old.

Numa married Angelina,
daughter of Spanish Creole Bernard Faustin Romero, at the
St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1868.

1d

Cyrille married Scholastique,
daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Boudreaux of Vermilion, at the
St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1815. Their son
Philemon, also called Edmond,was born on the Vermilion in April 1818. Their
daughters married into the Bourg and Simon families. Cyrille
remarried to Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Trahan
of Anse à Michaux, at the St. Martinville church in June 1821.
Their son Joseph was born in St. Martin Parish in January 1826,
Émile in July 1829, Jean or Joseph Seville, called Seville,in November 1831,
Cyrille, fils was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, age 1, in April 1835, Camille at age 19 months in August
1837, and Clémile at age 7 months in March 1839.
Their daughters married into the Clark, LeBlanc, and Simon families. Cyrille,
père died in Lafayette Parish in August 1839; the priest who
recorded his burial said that Cyrille was 50 years old when he died, but
he was 52.

Philemon/Edmond, by his first
wife, married cousin Marie Célanise, Sidalise, or Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadian
Joseph Vincent, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, in June 1839; Marie Sidalise's mother was a Landry.
Their son Joseph was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1841
but died at age 2 in September 1843, Cyrille le jeune
was born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia
Parish, in April 1845, and Camille near Abbeville, Vermilion
Parish, in May 1848. Their daughters married into the
Dubois (French Creole, not Acadian) and St. Germain
families.

Camille married double
cousin Delphine, perhaps also called Christine, daughter of fellow Acadian Valsin Vincent,
at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in May 1869; Delphine's
mother was a Landry.

Joseph, by his second
wife, married Eugénie, daughter of French Creole Édouard Picard,
at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1848.
Their son Joseph, fils was born in Lafayette Parish in
January 1850. They were living near Abbeville, Vermilion
Parish, by 1860.

Émile, by his second wife,
married Azéma, daughter of French Creole Augustin Simon, at
the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1850;
Azéma's mother was a Leger. Their son Camille le
jeunewas born in Lafayette Parish in November 1854,
Guilbert in February 1857, and
Augustin Treville in the late 1850s.

Seville, by his
second wife, married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Baptiste
Guidry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May
1851, and remarried to Adélaïde Cécile, daughter of Ange Degeyter, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin
Parish, in June 1856. They settled near Breaux Bridge.
Their son Joseph Angelbert was born in April 1857, Cyrille
le jeune in December 1858, Jean Seville, fils died "at age 18 mths."
in June 1864, Ernest was born in March 1864,
Gustave in May 1865, and Jean Evariste near Church Point,
then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in October 1867.
In July 1862,
Seville
enlisted in Confederate service at Camp Pratt near New Iberia
probably as a conscript in the Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana
Infantry, which had been raised in St. Martin Parish; he was 30
years old. The Yellow Jackets fought in South Louisiana,
especially in the Teche Campaign of spring 1863. In November
1863, at Simmesport on the upper Atchafalaya, the battalion was
consolidated with another largely-Cajun unit, and Seville was
assigned to Company G of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow
Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which also fought in the Bayou
State. In early 1864, he was reported sick at a general
hospital "on Ouachita River" in northeastern Louisiana; a son was
born to him back at Breaux Bridge while Seville was in the hospital.
Sadly, one of his other sons died a few months later, while Seville was serving with
his unit in central Louisiana. As the
birth of one of his younger sons attests, Seville survived the war
and returned to his family. He was buried at St. Bernard Catholic
Cemetery, beside the church in Breaux Bridge.

Cyrille, fils, by
his second wife, likely married Marie Aglae, called Aglae, daughter
of Spanish Creole Frédéric Gary or Gario, in a civil ceremony in St.
Landry Parish in April 1856, and sanctified the marriage at the
Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1858. Their
son Cyrille III was born near Grand Coteau in June 1857, Hilaire near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia
Parish, in January 1861, and Adam near Youngsville, Lafayette
Parish, in
July 1869.

1e

Maximilien married Marie
Domicile or Domitille, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Anselme Thibodeaux of
Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January
1816. Their son Maximilien, fils, also called Similien, was born on the Vermilion in
November 1816, and Joseph le jeune in January 1818. Their
daughters married into the Trahan family. Maximilien,
père died in Lafayette Parish in December 1839; he was only 44 years
old; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in
August 1840.

Maximilien, fils married Marie Marcellite F.,
called Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Trahan,
at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1837; one
of Similien's sisters married Marie Marcellite's
brother. Similien and Marie Marcellite's son
Rosiclair was born in Lafayette Parish in January 1840,
Isaac in November1844, Théodore near Abbeville, Vermilion
Parish, in March 1849, and Joseph Théolin, called Théolin,in
August 1850. They also had a son named Théogène, unless
he was Théodore. Their daughter married into the Miguez
family. Maximilien, fils's succession record was filed
at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1868; he would have been
52 years old that year.

Rosiclair married
cousin Marie Uranie, called Uranie, Landry at the Abbeville church, Vermilion
Parish, in February 1858. Their son Joseph Duplex
was born near Abbeville in August 1860, and Jean Baptiste
Polignac in October 1866.

Isaac married cousin
Elina, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Théodule Delcambre,
at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia
Parish, in January 1867; Elina's mother was a Landry.

Joseph Théolin married cousin
Félicia, another daughter of Théodule Delcambre, at the
New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in February 1868. Their
son Lucien was born near New Iberia in October 1868.

Théogène married
Félicia, daughter of Spanish Creole Charles Miguez, at
the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in July 1868. Their
son Justilien was born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish,
in August 1869.

2

Saturin or Saturnin,
by his first wife, born either in Acadia or Maryland in c1755, stood as
godfather to his half-brother Hubert in April 1773 and was counted with his
parents at Attakapas in May 1777, age 22, so he survived childhood, but he
probably did not marry.

3

Hubert, by his second wife,
born at Attakapas in April 1773, married Anne-Euphrosine, called Euphrosine
and Euphosie, daughter of French
Creole Jean Legros of False River, Pointe Coupée, and Opelousas, at
Attakapas in February 1800. Their son Hubert-Euphroi dit
Godefroi, also called Leufroi, was born at
Attakapas in July 1802, a son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home at
Île-aux-Cannes, near Fausse Pointe, 7 days after his birth in September
1806, Eusèbe was born at La Petite Anse, southwest of Fausse
Pointe, in January 1810, Émilien at Fausse Pointe in January 1812, Édouard Valsin in July 1816,
Victor Treville in November 1820, and Jean Beauville, called
Beauville and Bouville, in
September 1823. They also had an older son named Bélisaire. Their daughters married into
the Derouen, LeBlanc, and Leleux families. Hubert died "at his home at la fausse
pointe" in July 1824; the priest who recorded his burial said that Hubert
died at age "about 53 years," but he was only 51; his
succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin
Parish, in March 1830.
Four of his sons married LeBlancs, three of them sisters, and two
married Héberts who were sisters. All
of his married sons settled on the lower Teche, most of them near New Iberia
but one as far down as St. Mary Parish.
A granddaughter and at least two grandsons settled in St. Landry Parish.

3a

Hubert Euphroi dit
Godefroi dit Leufroi married Marie Éloise, also called Louise
Modeste and Modeste Éloise, daughter of fellow Acadian Agricole LeBlanc, at the St.
Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1827. Their son
Godefroi, fils was baptized at the St. Martinville church, age 5
months, in April 1828, Alfred was born in October 1834,
Alix near New Iberia in March 1840, and Ozémé in Lafayette
Parish in June 1850. Their daughters married
into the Ardoin, Gary, LeBlanc (French Canadian, not Acadian), and Lopez
families in St. Landry Parish, so the family must have moved there from
St. Martin. Godefroi, père's succession record may have
been filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in May 1860;
he would have been 58 years old that year.

Godefroi, fils
married cousin Marguerite Eugénie or Virginie, also called Éloise, daughter of François
Landry, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in
July 1849. Their son Hubert was born near Grand Coteau
in June 1852, and Léopold in February 1858. Their
daughters married into the Broussard and Gary families,
one at New Iberia. Godefroi, fil's succession record may
have been filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in
May 1860; he would have been 32 years old that year.

Alfred likely married Marie Azéma, daughter
of fellow Acadian Amand
Richard of St. Martin Parish, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry
Parish in February 1855. They settled on the lower Vermilion.
Alfred's succession record was filed at the Opelousas
courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in June 1866; he would have been 32
years old that year. Marie remarried at Church Point, then in
St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in November 1866, so Alfred's
succession was post-mortem. Did his family line survive?

3b

Bélisaire married Logie
Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadian Théophile LeBlanc, at the
St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in March 1829. They
settled near New Iberia. Their
son Paul Bélisaire was born in April 1831
but died at age 9 months in February 1832,
Hubert le jeune was born in October 1833, Agricole in
March 1836, Bélisaire, filsin March 1838, Jacques
in May 1842,
Alexandre in December 1844, Alexis in November 1846, and
Charles Ernest in April 1849.
Their daughter married into the Leleux family. They also
had a son named Luc or Lucquet.

Hubert le jeune
married Marie Zelma, called Zelma, daughter of Anglo American Joseph Daniel,
at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia
Parish, in January 1857; Marie's mother was a Sonnier.
Their son Laclaire was born near New Iberia in October 1859,
Luc le jeune in September 1864, Eusèbe in October
1866, and Paul O. near Lydia in December 1868.

Agricole married Isabelle
or Élizabeth,
another daughter Joseph Daniel, at the New Iberia
church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in October
1859. Their son Césaire was born near New Iberia in
December 1864, Camille in July 1867, and Alexandre
near Lydia in July 1870.

Luc married Marie Lezima or
Lezina, daughter of Arvillien Gary or Garry, perhaps a Spanish Creole,
in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in October 1865, and
sanctified the marriage at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin
but now in Iberia Parish, in November; Lezima's mother was a
Theriot. They settled near Patoutville, now Lydia. Their son Jacques was born in October 1868.

Alexis married Idea,
daughter of fellow Acadian Isidore Rivet of Assumption
Parish, at the Lydia church, Iberia Parish, in April 1870.

3c

Émilien married Rosalie
Dalisene, Dalizene, Delisene, Alizaine, or Fanelie, another daughter of Théophile LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville
church, St. Martin Parish, in March 1832. They settled near New
Iberia. Their son Émilien, fils, also called Émile, was born in January 1834,
Achille in January 1838, Alix le jeune in February 1851,
and Léonce in July 1854. Their daughters married into the
Broussard, Daniel, Dugas, and Louvière families.

Émilien, fils
married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Louvière,
at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia
Parish, in May 1854. Émilien, fils died in Lafayette
Parish in September 1857; the Vermilionville priest who recorded the
burial said that Émile, as he called him, died "at age 25 yrs.," but
Émilien, fils was only 23; his succession record was filed at
the Vermilionville courthouse two days after his death. Was
Émilien a victim of the yellow fever epidemic that struck South
Louisiana during the summer and fall of 1857? Did
his family line die with him?

Achille married Célestine,
daughter of fellow Acadian Frédéric Louvière, at the New
Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in
August 1866; Achille's sister Rosalie remarried to Célestine's
brother Adrien. Achille and Célestine's son Achille,
fils was born near Patoutville, now Lydia, in February 1869, and
Rodolphe in June 1870.

3d

Édouard Valsin married Julie
Pamelise, yet
another daughter of Théophile LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville
church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1837. They settled near New
Iberia. Their son Siméon Ovid
or Ovide,was born in March 1844, Paulin in June 1848, Hébert in
November 1850,
Gustave in September 1854, Oscare in June 1856, Jacques in October 1858,
and Richard Toffle in April 1861.

Siméon Ovide was working as a clerk perhaps in New
Iberia during the summer of 1861 when he enlisted in Company C of the 8th Regiment Louisiana
Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought
in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania; he was only 17 years old. According to Confederate records,
Siméon had a fair complexion, light hair, blue eyes, and stood 6 feet, 7 inches tall! The gangly youth was captured
four times in Virginia during his service as one of General R. E.
Lee's Louisiana Tigers--at Fredericksburg in May 1863; Rappahannock
Station the following November; Strasburg in September 1864; and
High Bridge in April 1865. Needless to say, he spent a lot of
time in Federal prisoner-of-war facilities--at Old Capitol Prison,
D.C.; Fort Delaware, Delaware; and Point Lookout, Maryland. In
June 1865, exactly four years after his enlistment, he was released
from the prison compound at Newport News, Virginia, after taking the
oath of allegiance to the U.S. government. Siméon returned to
South Louisiana, married French Creole Olorine Ardoin, and
settled on the Calcasieu prairies. Their son Simeon,
fils was born "in Lacassine," Calcasieu Parish, today's Jefferson
Davis Parish, in June 1874. Siméon died probably at Lacassine
in c1904, age 59 or 60.

3e

Victor Treville married Marie
Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Lacroix Hébert, at the
New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in June
1844. They settled near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, before moving
to Lafayette Parish by the late 1850s. Their daughter married into
the Henry (German or Swiss Creole, not Acadian) family.

3f

Bouville married
Clementine, another daughter of Jean Lacroix Hébert, in a
civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in April 1846, and sanctified the
marriage at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia
Parish, the following June. Their son Jean Ovide, called
Ovide,was born
near New Iberia in March 1851, Ulysse in April 1853, and
Eugène in November 1858. Their daughters married into the
Hains and
Malitte families.

4

Valentin, by his second
wife, baptized at Opelousas, age 9 months, in May 1779, married Marie-Françoise,
called Marine and Marinette,
daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Hébert, at Attakapas in April 1801.
Their son Valentin, fils was born at Attakapas in December 1801 but
died at age 4 months the following April, Joseph Adolphe was born at Fausse Pointe in December 1804,
François Xavier in December 1812, and another Valentin, fils
in December 1814. Their daughters married into the Amy, Leleux,
and Pellerin (French Creole, not Acadian) families. Valentin remarried to Joséphine, daughter of
French Creole François Prevost and widow of Gilbert Amy, at
the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1824. Valentin
died near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in
December 1842; the priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to
give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Valentin died "at
age 67 yrs.," but he was only 64; his succession record was filed at the
Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in February 1845, so he may have lived
near the boundary between St. Martin and St. Mary parishes.

4a

Joseph Adolphe, by his first
wife, married
Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis LeBlanc, at the St.
Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1832. They
settled in St. Mary Parish. Their son
Joseph O., perhaps Oliffe, was born in February 1834. Joseph Adolphe's
succession record was filed at the Franklin courthouse in May 1836; he
would have been 32 years old that year.

Joseph O. married Marie
Estelle, called Estelle, Estellia, and Estelie, daughter of Spanish Creole Gabriel
Viator, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in
Iberia Parish, in January 1854. Their son Arsène died
near New Iberia "at age 13 mths." February 1856,
Luke Deluke was born in September 1858, Darmas Armand in
June 1861, Désiré in September 1864, and Pierre Fenelon
in April 1867.

4b

François Xavier, by his first
wife, married Marguerite Levine, daughter of French Creole Louis Leleux,
at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1833.
They lived on lower Bayou Teche before moving to the St. Landry prairies. Their son Drosin
was born near New Iberia in June 1842, Aristide
near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in May 1846, François Devasin in October 1861,
and Philosin in April 1864. Their daughters married into the Landry and
LeBlanc (French Canadian, not Acadian) families. François's
succession record was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry
Parish, in February 1866; he would have been 54 years old that year.

Aristide married Azéma,
daughter of French Creole François Legros or Gros, in a civil
ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1866, and sanctified the
marriage at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in
Acadia Parish, in November; Azéma's mother was a LeBlanc.
Their son Gabriel was born near Church Point in February
1869.

4c

Valentin, fils, by his
first wife, married Merite Marie Armeline, Amelie, or Armelise, daughter of
fellow Acadian Dorothée Dupuy and widow of Petit Maubon
Latiolais, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1855,
and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish,
in August 1856, but Valentin, fils and Marie Amelie had been married,
or at were living together, for years.
Their son Firmin was born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but
now in Iberia Parish, in December 1846, Jean Baptiste near
Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in January 1849, and Valentin
III in June 1851.

5

Youngest son Alexandre-Anselme,
by his second wife, born at Attakapas in February 1782, married Susanne,
daughter of Anglo Creole Benjamin Hargrave of Vermilion, in St. Martin Parish in
December 1807. Alexandre died "at 5:00 a.m. ... at his home" in
Lafayette Parish in June 1826; he was only 44 years old; his succession
record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July. He and his
wife probably had no sons, at least none who appear in area church records,
so his family line probably died with him.

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From the 1770s into the 1790s, other
Landrys who had come to Louisiana from Maryland left the river, settled
on the western prairies, and added substantially to the western branch of
the family:

Isabelle Landry, a widow,
died at Attakapas in December 1787. The priest who recorded her
burial, and who did not bother to give her parents' names or even her dead
husband's name, said that she was 53 years old when she died.

Isabelle Landry, widow of
Mathurin Richard, died in St. Landry Parish in April 1813, in her
late 70s.

Anne Landry, widow of
Augustin Broussard, died at her son's home on the Vermilion in
September 1814, in her early 70s.

Pélagie Landry, widow of
François Broussarddit Beausoleil, died in Lafayette Parish in
December 1831, in her early 80s. Her succession record was filed at
the Vermilionville courthouse in January and lists her many heirs.

Descendants of Basile LANDRY
(c1727-1788; René le jeune, Antoine)

Basile, second son of Pierre
Landry and Marguerite Forest, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in
May 1727, married Brigitte, daughter of Pierre Boudrot, in c1753.
The British deported them to Maryland in 1755. Colonial officials
counted them at Upper Marlborough in July 1763. They came to Louisiana
in 1768 with the party led by the Breau brothers of Pigiguit and were
forced to settle at San Luìs de Natchez on the river. After the Spanish released
them from Natchez, they moved to the Attakapas District. Their daughter
married into the Rogerdit Brisbois (French Canadian, not
Acadian) family. Basile
remarried to Anne-Euphrosine, also called Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadian
Michel Vincent and widow of Michel Trahan, at Attakapas in May 1786.
Basile died at Attakapas in March 1788; he was 60 years old. He
may have fathered no sons by either of his wives, at least none who appear
in local church records, so
this family line, except for its blood, probably died with him.

Amand-Pierre, son of Charles Landry and Marie LeBlanc,
born probably at Pigiguit in c1746, was deported with his family to Maryland
in 1755. Colonial officials counted him and his siblings at Oxford, on
Maryland's Eastern Shore, in July 1763. He followed them to Louisiana in 1766 and
settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married Marguerite, daughter of
fellow Acadian Pierre Melançon, in c1768. Spanish officials
counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabanocé in 1769
and on the same side of the river at nearby Ascension in 1770.
Probably following his sister Pélagie, who married a son of
Joseph Broussarddit Beausoleil,
they moved to the Attakapas District in the 1770s and settled at Côte Gelée.
In 1785, Amand and Marguerite owned a
single slave. Their daughters married into the Broussard and
Granger families. Amand remarried to cousin Élisabeth- or
Isabelle-Augustine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Landry and widow of
Joseph Dugas, at Attakapas in August 1789.
Élisabeth was born in France and had come to Louisiana aboard La
Bergère, one of the Seven Ships, in 1785. Their daughter married
into the Melançon family. A tutor was appointed
for Amand's children in May 1793. Amand died at Attakapas in November
1793; the priest who recorded his burial said that Amand was 55 years old
when he died, but he was closer to 47. Judging from the time between
appointment of tutorship for his children and Amand's death, perhaps he had been ill for
months.

1

Oldest son Joseph-Vital, called
Vital, from his first wife, baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in
December 1770, married Pélagie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Mire of Côte Gelée, at Attakapas in
December 1797; Pélagie also had been born on the river. Their son,
name unrecorded, died probably at Côte Gelée, age 15 days, in June 1802.
Their daughters married into the Bodin, Leleux, and Louviere families. Vital died at
his home at Côte Gelée in January 1805; he was only 34 years old; his
succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin
Parish, in September
1808. He and his wife had no sons, at least none who appear in local
church records, so his line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with him.

2

Pierre, by his first wife,
baptized at Opelousas, age 7 months, in April 1780, may have died young.

3

Jean-Marcel, by his first
wife, born at Attakapas in September 1781, married Ursule, also called
Cécile, daughter of
fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Doiron of La Pointe, at the St.
Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1808. Jean died in
Lafayette Parish in July 1835; he was only 53 years old; his succession record
was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1839. He and his
wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.

4

Youngest son Pierre, the
second of that name, by his
first wife, born at Attakapas in April 1784, married
cousin Françoise, daughter of Olivier Landry of Côte Gelée,
at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1813. Their
son Basile was born at Côte Gelée in April 1816, Eugène in
May 1819, and Amand Trasimond was baptized at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 months, in December 1829. They also
had a son named Pierre, fils. Their
daughters married into the Broussard, Comeaux, Granger,
LeBlanc, Richard, and Sonnier families.

4a

Pierre, fils married Marie Azélie,
called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard
Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December
1841 (the printed marriage record states that "This entry was scratched,"
but for what reason it does not say; nonetheless, the couple married).
They settled near Youngsville. Their son Aristide Alexis was born in
February 1847, and François in October 1855. Their daughters
married into the Guidry, Hulot, and Landry
families. Pierre's succession record was filed at the
Vermilionville courthouse in January 1866.

Aristide married Émelia
Fabre, widow of Edgar Sonnier, at the Youngsville church,
Lafayette Parish, in February 1870.

4b

Amand Trasimond married cousin
Marie Amelia, Azélie, or Azélia, daughter of Hippolyte Landry, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1858. They
settled near Youngsville. Their
son François Zulmé was born in December 1858, and Joseph
Trasimond, perhaps their son, in St. Landry Parish in October 1863.

Basile, son of Vincent Landry
and Marguerite Boudrot, born probably at Grand-Pré in c1750, was
deported with his family to Maryland in 1755. He went to Louisiana in 1766,
evidently on his own, and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where Spanish
officials counted him with a brother-in-law's family on the left, or east,
bank of the river in 1769 and on the same side of the river at nearby
Ascension in 1770. He married Marie-Anastasie, daughter of fellow
Acadian Joseph Richard, at St.-Jacques in November 1776.
Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river at
Ascension in 1777. They moved to the Attakapas District in the late
1770s or early 1780s and settled at Côte Gelée and along the Vermilion.
Their daughter Madeleine was a deaf-mute who died at age 38 in September
1822; she never married. Basile remarried to
Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Mire of Côte Gelée, at
Attakapas in October 1786. Daughter Eléonore, called Léonore, gave birth to son Jean
in June 1804, three years before she married into the Breaux
family; she later married a Matherne. Basile and Marie-Anne's other daughters married into the Broussard,
Frederick, Hébert, Taylor, Trahan, and Vincent families.
Basile died "at the home of Jean Baptiste Broussard at Côte Gelée" in
November 1811; the priest who recorded his burial said that Basile was 56
years old when he died, but he was closer to 61. One wonders why he
did not die at his own home. His succession record was filed at the
St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in December 1811.

1

Oldest son Raphaël, by his
first wife, born either at Ascension or Attakapas in c1779, died at Attakapas, age 4, in January 1783.

2

Jean-Pierre, called
Pierre, from his first
wife, born at Attakapas in February 1782, married cousin Rose Adélaïde, called
Adélaïde, daughter of
fellow Acadian Joseph Dugas, at Attakapas in June 1802; Adélaïde's
mother was a Landry. They settled at Côte Gelée. Their
son Jean-Pierre, fils had been born in April
1801 or 1802, Joseph was born in October 1805, Gédéon in
January 1808, Lucien in August 1811 but died at age 9 months in June
1812, and Venance was born in January 1816. Their daughters
married into the Breaux, Broussard, and Dubois families. Jean Pierre died in Lafayette Parish
in December 1822; the priest who recorded his burial said that Pierre was 45
years old when he died, but he was only 40; his succession record
was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1827.

2a

Joseph died in Lafayette
Parish in December 1823. He was only 18 years old and probably did not
marry.

2b

Jean Pierre, fils
married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Isidore Broussard,
probably in Lafayette Parish in the early 1820s. Their son
Martel was born in Lafayette Parish in July 1829, Pierre
Théodore near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in August 1840,
Sosthène in November 1843, Jean in August 1846, and
Placide in October 1849.
They also had an older son named Jean or Pierre Théolin, called Théolin
and Cheoley. Their daughters married into the Delcambre,
Suire, Viator, and Vincent families. A succession record,
calling him Pierre and mentioning two of his sons, was filed at the St.
Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in October 1866; Jean Pierre,
fils would have been in his mid-60s that year; one wonders whose
succession this may have been.

Martel married Marie
Rosela or Rosalie,
perhaps also called Ozea, daughter of Spanish Creole Gabriel Viator, at the New Iberia
church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in February
1850; Martel's sister Marie Celima married Marie's brother Ozémé.
Martel and Marie Rosela's son Martel, fils was born near New
Iberia in June 1860, and Gabriel in July 1868. Their daughter married into the Rajeur
family.

Théolin married Marie Ozea,
called Ozea, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Timothée Delcambre, at the
New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in
January 1861. Their son Drozin was born near New Iberia
in September 1861, Ludovique in October 1864, and Homere
in January 1870.

Sosthène married Marie,
daughter of Spanish Creole Raphaël Viator, at the New Iberia
church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January
1862. With younger brother Jean, he was mentioned in a
succession record filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St.
Martin Parish, in October 1866.

Jean was mentioned with
older brother Sosthène in a succession record filed at the St.
Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in October 1866.

Placide married cousin
Amelie or Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi Broussard and widow
of Joseph Boudreaux, at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish,
in January 1869. Their son Sosthène was born near New
Iberia in May 1870.

2c

Gédéon married Anne or Aimée Georgette
Suzette,
daughter of French Creole Jean Baptiste Lormand, LeNormand,
or Normand, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1826.
They settled near Youngsville. Their son Séverin was born in February 1831,
a son, name unrecorded, probably Derbes, was baptized at the Vermilionville
church, age 3 months, in September 1833, Argille at age 3 months
in September 1835, Jean Onésiphore, called Onésiphore,at age 2 months in
May 1840, and a child, name and age unrecorded, perhaps a son,
died in August 1842. Their daughters married into the Comeaux,
Delcambre, Hébert,
Landry, and LeBlanc
families.

Séverin married cousin
Nathalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Don Louis Boudreaux, at
the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1853;
Nathalie's mother was a Landry. They settled near
Youngsville. Their son Severin, fils was born in August
1865. Séverin's succession record, naming his wife, was filed
at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1867.

Derbes married
cousin Mélanie, daughter of Athanase Landry of Côte Gelée, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in
November 1856. They settled near Youngsville. Their son Paul
Moléus, called Moléus,was born in March 1859,
and Joseph Hebrard in June 1866. During the War of
1861,
Derbes served in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana
Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg,
Mississippi. In December 1885, in his early 50s, he remarried
a second time--his third marriage--to Ernestine Richard at
the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish; the marriage also was
recorded in Lafayette Parish, so they likely had moved to the
Carencro area.

Onésiphore married cousin
Marguerite, daughter of Hippolyte Landry, at the Youngsville
church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1866. Their son
Joseph Alphée was born near Youngsville in October 1867.

2d

Venance married Cléonide,
daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Granger, at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1837. Did the family line
survive?

3

A son, by his first wife, name
unrecorded, died at Attakapas in January 1784 only 8 days after his birth.

4

Joseph-Pierre, also called
Joseph-Basile, from his
second wife, born at Attakapas in March 1789, married Geneviève, daughter of
French Creole Jean Louis Bodin or Baudin, at the St. Martinville church, St.
Martin Parish, in October 1814; Geneviève's mother was a Doiron.
Their son Denis Dolze was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1839,
when Joseph was 50 years old.
Their daughters married into the Bourg and Landry families.
Joseph's succession record, calling him Joseph Bazile and naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in
February 1849; Joseph would have been 60 years old that year.

5

Athanase, by his second
wife, born at Attakapas in December 1790, married Adélaïde, daughter of
fellow Acadian Simon Girouard of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville
church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1815. They settled at Côte Gelée.
Their son Sylvestre Furcy was born in January 1823,
Jean Furcy, called Furcy,was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, age 3 months, in March 1827 but died at age 6 in March 1833, a son, name unrecorded, died "in the
morning at age un quart d'heure (quarter of an hour)" in September
1828, Simon Furcy was baptized at age 3 months in July 1830, Émile
Arcide or Alcide, called Alcide,at age 6 months in November 1832, Basile
Duplessis, called Duplessis,was born in April 1834, and Athanase, fils was baptized
at age 3 1/2 months in January 1837. Their
daughters married into the Landry, Prejean, and Taylor
families. Athanase's succession record, naming his wife, was filed at
the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in December 1867; he would
have been 77 years old that year.

5a

Simon Furcy married cousin
Remise, also called Remigia, Bernice, and Nemise, daughter of fellow Acadian Maximilien Girouard, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1852. They
settled near Youngsville. Their
son Simon Alcea was born in August 1855, Joseph Erasme
in December 1857, Jules in February 1860, Marcel
Duplessis in September 1862, and Elias in March 1868.

5b

Sylvestre Furcy married French
Creole Nathalie Mallet in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in
May 1854. They settled probably near Carencro. Their son
Sylvestre, fils was born in May 1857.

5c

Alcide married cousin
Emma, another daughter of Maximilien Girouard, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1855. They
settled near Youngsville. Their son Alphonse was
born in January 1864, and Joseph Gabeles in November 1869.

5d

Duplessis married cousin
Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadian Florentin Bourg, at the
Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1865; Ursule's mother
was a Landry.

6

André Basile, by his second wife,
baptized at Attakapas, age 4 months, in April 1795, married Marie Eulalie, daughter
of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Melançon of Lafayette Parish, at the
Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1823. A child, name
unrecorded, perhaps a son, died in Lafayette Parish "in the morning" at age
3 days in May 1828. Their daughters married into the Lalande or
Lalonde and Prejean families, and perhaps into the Lormand family as well. André remarried to Marie Céline
or Célanie, daughter of French Creole
Jean Calais, Caille, Cailler, Caillier, Caillet, or
Cayer, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in
September 1835. Their son Paul was born in Lafayette Parish in
June 1838, Gustave in April 1839, Basile Philogène, called
Philogène,in January 1842, and Jules, also called Jean,
in c1844. Their daughters married into the Babineaux
and Leger
families. André Basile's succession record was filed at the
Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in December 1864; he would have
been 69 years old that year.

6a

Paul, by his second wife,
married cousin Eugénie, daughter of French Creole Edmond Hulot,
at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1856;
Eugénie's mother was a Landry. They settled near
Youngsville. Their son Lucien was born in January 1859, Hermance in November 1867,
and Albert in July 1869.

6b

Basile Philogène, by his
second wife, married cousin Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadian Camille
Broussard, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in
November 1860; Ursule's mother was a Landry. Their son
Adam was born near Youngsville in September 1865.

6c

Jules/Jean, by his second wife,
married Marguerite Delzire or Dolzire, daughter of Spanish Creole Antoine
Fernandez Miguez, at
the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in
May 1864. Their son Jean Adelar was born near New Iberia in
April 1867.

7

Placide, by his second
wife, a twin, born at Attakapas in September 1800, may have died young,
unless he was the Placide Landry who died in St. Martin Parish in
September 1843. The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial,
and who did not bother to give any parents' names or mention a wife, said
that Placide died "at age 40 yrs." This Placide would have been age 43
at the time, so there is a good chance it was him. Did he marry?

8

Youngest son Rosémond, by his second
wife, died at his parents' home at Côte Gelée, age 1, in November 1809.

Descendants of Olivier LANDRY
(c1753-c1823; René le jeune, Abraham)

Olivier, second son of René Landry and his
first wife Marie Thériot, born probably at Minas in c1753, was exiled
to Maryland with his family in 1755. Colonial officials counted them
at Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, in July 1763. He followed his
widowed father and siblings to Louisiana in 1766 and settled with them at
St.-Jacques on the river. He married Marie-Madeleine, called
Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian François
Hébert, at nearby Ascension in February 1775. They lived near the
boundary between the Ascension and St.-Gabriel districts before moving to the Attakapas District
in the 1780s, where they settled at Côte Gelée in present-day Lafayette
Parish. In the
1810s, Olivier "claimed land on Bayou Tortue, West of St. Martinville."
His daughters married into the Hébert, Landry, and
Missonnier families. Olivier's succession record was filed at the
Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in July 1823; he would have been 70 years old that
year.

1

Alexandre, born at either
St.-Gabriel or Ascension in the late 1770s,married
Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Blaise Brasseaux, at Opelousas
in February 1801. Their son, name unrecorded, died probably at Côte
Gelée soon after his birth in February 1802, Alexandre, fils was born
in August 1806 but died at age 5 months the following January, a
second Achille Alexandre, called Alexandre, fils, was born in July 1808, Henri in
November 1810, and Jean Euclide, also called Jean Baptiste Duclise, in July 1818. Their daughters
married into the Duhon, Landry, and Sonnier families. Alexandre,
père's
succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin
Parish, in October
1819; he would have been in his late 40s that year.

1a

Alexandre, fils married
cousin Elisa or Lise, daughter of Fabien Landry, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1831. They
settled at Côte Gelée. Their
son Alexandre III was born in April 1832, Euclide in September 1833,
Martin was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 6 months,
in May 1836 but died at age 6 1/2 in September 1842, Oculi was
born in January 1838, Victor in March 1840, Norbert le jeune in April 1842,
Jacques Dupré in November 1848, Nicolas in April 1851, and Hippolyte in February
1854. Their daughter married into the Bonin family.

Euclide
married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard Comeaux,
at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1854.
They settled near Youngsville. Their son Ulysse was
born in March 1860, and Styva in August 1864.

Alexandre III may have
married fellow Acadian Eliza Granger and settled near
Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, by the mid-1850s.

Victor married cousin
Céleste, daughter of Pierre Landry, at the Youngsville church,
Lafayette Parish, in December 1860. Their son Alexandre
le jeune was born near Youngsville in October 1861. A
succession record for Victor Landry was filed at the
Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in January 1869; if this
was his, he would have been 29 years old that year.

1b

Jean Baptiste Duclise married Marie Azélie,
called Azélie, daughter of
fellow Acadian Hippolyte Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church,
Lafayette Parish, in August 1836. Their son Armasa was born
in Lafayette Parish in November 1837, Lucas in July 1842,
Jean Baptiste, fils in May 1845, and Charles in January 1850.
Their daughters married into the Comeaux and Langlinais
families. Jean Baptiste Duclise's succession record was filed at the
Vermilionville courthouse in May 1854; the parish clerk who recorded the
document noted that Azélie Comeaux was "now remarried to Éloi
Comeaux," so Jean Baptiste Duclise died probably in his early or mid-30s.

Charles married Alice,
daughter of fellow Acadian Dupré Guidry, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1870.

2

Edmond-Michel, born at either St.-Gabriel or Ascension in the late 1770s,married Anastasie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Girouard of Côte Gelée, at Attakapas
in December 1801. They settled at Côte Gelée. Their son Edmond, fils was born in
September 1811, Albert in November 1812, Urbin in January
1819, Norbert in November 1820, and Norval or Norwall in October 1823
but died at age 7 1/2 in August 1831.
Their daughter married into the Comeaux family. Edmond's succession record (the recording clerk called him Armand) was filed
at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in December 1828; he would have been in his
late 40s or early 50s that year.

2a

Edmond, fils died in
Lafayette Parish in February 1834. He was only 22 years old and
probably did not marry.

2b

Norbert married cousin Marie
Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of Rosémond Landry, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1841. Their son
Rosémond was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1851, and
Albert in February 1864. They also had an older son named
Edmond. Their
daughters married into the Bernard and Langlinais
families.

Edmond married cousin
Louise or Louisa, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Duclise Comeaux,
at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1867;
Louise's mother, also, was a Landry. They settled near
Youngsville. Their son
Lucien was born in September 1867.

3

Pierre-Olivier,
called Olivier, fils and Firmin, baptized at St.-Gabriel, age unrecorded, in December
1779, married Catherine Julienne, called Julienne, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Breaux of Beaubassin near
Carencro, at Attakapas in May 1805. Their son Joseph-Achille,
called Achille, was born
at Beaubassin in March 1806 but died at age 1 in January 1807,
Nicolas was born at Côte Gelée in January 1808, François Venance,
called Venance,in March 1813, Zenon Alphanor near Grand Coteau, St. Landry
Parish, in September 1821, Gérard in Lafayette Parish in February
1824, Olivier Fulbert, called Fulbert and also Philibert, in April 1827, and Victor Thiburse was
baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 months, in
June 1830. Their daughter married into the Comeaux family.
Olivier, fils's succession record may have been filed at the
Vermilionville courthouse in September 1860; if this was him, he would have
been in his early 80s that year.

3a

François Venance married
Mélanie, daughter of French Creole Pierre Paul Montet, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1835; Mélanie's
mother was a Duhon. François Venance remarried to Carmelite,
daughter of French Creole Olivier Blanchet and widow of Don Louis Babineaux,
at the Vermilionville church in April 1850. They settled on the
lower Vermilion River. Their son Olivier
Alcide was born in May 1852, a son, name
unrecorded, died at birth in May 1855, Ovile Eustache was born in
September 1857, and François, fils in February 1859. François Venance's succession record was
filed at the Abbeville courthouse, Vermilion Parish, in 1859; he would
have been 46 years old that year.

Olivier Alcide may have
died near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in December 1868. The
priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any
parents' names, said that Olivier died "at age 14 yrs.," but Olivier
Alcide would have been 16 1/2.

3b

Zenon married cousin Oliva or
Olida,
daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Valmont Comeaux, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1841; Oliva's mother
was a Landry. Their son Pierre Olivier, called
Olivier,was born in
Lafayette Parish in July 1842, Joseph Numa in March 1850, Alexandre in April 1853,
and Augustin in May 1855. Their daughter married a
Landry cousin.

Olivier married double
cousin Euphémie, daughter of Pierre Landry, at the
Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1868; Euphémie's
mother, also, was a Comeaux.

3c

Nicholas Landry's
succession record was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry
Parish, in May 1843. This Nicholas would have been 35 years old
that year. Did he marry?

3d

Gérard married Mélanie,
also called Hélène, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Olidon Broussard, at
the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1844.
Their son Gérard Hasard was born in Lafayette Parish in December
1859. Gérard remarried to Donatille, daughter of fellow Acadian
Paulin Broussard, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in
January 1866; Gérard was 42 years old at the time of the wedding.
Their son Paulin was born near Youngsville in April 1868.

3e

Fulbert/Philibert married cousin Elisa,
also called Zillia, Ezilda, Esilda, and Azilda, another daughter of Valmont Comeaux, at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1850. They settled near
Youngsville. Their son Adolphe
was born in August 1852, Pierre Marcel in March 1855, Louis Turbert
in March 1858, Arthur
in May 1860 but died at age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in
September 1868, and Nicolas was born in February 1867.

3d

Victor Thiburse,
age 19, was granted his emancipation in Lafayette Parish in
December 1849, and married fellow
Acadian Orliska or Auriska Broussard soon after. Their son Louis Sevigne
was born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in September 1853, and
Honoré Victor in October 1857. A succession record for Victor
Landry was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish,
in January 1869; if this was his, he would have been 39 years old that
year.

4

Jean-Henri, called Henri, born at
Ascension in March 1781, married Marie-Louise, called Louise or Lise,
daughter of French Creole François Begnaud of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1808;
Louisa's mother was a Doiron. Their son Émilien, a twin,
was born at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche in December 1812, Jean
Terville, called Terville,in October 1814, Christophe in September 1816, and
Hippolyte in November 1818. Their daughters married into the
Bernard, Guidry, and Landry
families. Henri died in Lafayette Parish in November 1832; he was only 51
years old; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse
in December 1833.

4a

Émilien married cousin
Marie Uranie, called Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadian Célestin Prejean of Lafayette
Parish, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February
1834; Uranie's mother was a Landry. Their son Charles
Numa was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1837 but died at age 10
months the following July, Alcide was born in December 1846, and
Henry in July 1849.
Their daughters married into the Billeaud, Doucet, and Pellerin
(French Creole, not Acadian) families.

4b

Hippolyte married Marie
Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of French Creole Nicolas Valleau,
Valleaux, Valot,
or Vallot, at the Vermilionville church,
Lafayette Parish, in September 1837. They settled at Côte Gelée. Their son Erneste was
born in November 1838, Ovide in December 1841 but died the
following July, Jean Dupré, perhaps called Dupré, was born in February 1844, Joseph in September 1846,
and Edmund in November 1854. They also had a son named
Estinville or Stainville. Their daughters married into
the Fabre and Landry families.

Estinville/Stainville
married Nercide, Nerèide, or Nesèide, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste
Duhon, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in
December 1865.

Dupré may have married
cousin Mathilde Landry in a civil ceremony in Lafayette
Parish in May 1868.

4c

Terville married Marie Irma or Isaurre,
daughter of Spanish Creole Raphaël Segura, at the New Iberia
church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1842.
Their son Émile Alphonse, called Alphonse,was born near New Iberia in February
1843, Albert in December 1850, and Lucien Homere, a twin,in February 1853. Terville remarried to Marie or
Marguerite Aurelia, called Aurelia, daughter of fellow
Acadian Hubert Theriot, at the New Iberia church in
September 1855. Their son Joseph Terville was born near New
Iberia in April 1862. Terville died near New Iberia in May 1869;
the priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any
parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Terville died "at age
55 yrs."; he was five months shy of that age.

Alphonse, by his first
wife, married cousin Clara, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles
Duclise Comeaux, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish,
in November 1866; Clara's mother was a Landry. They
were living near New Iberia in 1870.

4d

A succession record for Émile
Christophe Landry was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse,
Lafayette Parish, in February 1866. The succession said that Émile
Christophe was married to Lise Begueneau, but it likely meant
that he was a child of hers. Christophe would have been 50 years old
that year. Did he marry?

5

Fabien, born at Ascension
or Attakapas in the early 1780s,
married Anne Beatrice, called Beatrice, daughter of fellow Acadian
Jean Baptiste Granger of
Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in December
1810. Their son Clet or Clette was born at Côte Gelée in June 1815, twins
Eugène and Théogène in September 1822, and
Symphorien in November 1824. Their daughters married into the
Giroir,
Hulot, and Landry families. Fabien died in Lafayette Parish
in August 1843; the Vermilionville priest who recorded his burial said that
Fabien died "at age 62 yrs."; his succession record was filed at the
Vermilionville courthouse the following February. Two of his four sons
created families of their own and remained in Lafayette Parish.

5a

Clet married cousin
Adélaïde, daughter of Athanase Landry, at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1835. Their son Jean Adéol,
called Adéol,
was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1839, Fabien in February
1844, Émile Clevence in November 1853, Joseph Alphée
in February 1858, and Symphorien in August 1860. Their daughters married into the
Breaux and Girouard
families.

Adéol married Clara,
daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard LeBlanc, at the
Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1868. Their
son Joseph Avery was born near Youngsville in December 1869.

5b

Théogène, a twin, died in
Lafayette Parish in November 1842. He was only 20 years old and
probably did not marry.

5c

Eugène died in Lafayette
Parish in December 1842, only a couple of weeks after his twin,
Théogène, died.
He, too, probably did
not marry.

5d

Symphorien married cousin
Estelle Advina or Vina, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Granger,
at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1845.
Their son Alcide Cyprien was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1847,
Valérien in October 1850, and Charles in May 1852.
Their daughter married into the Bonin family.

Alcide Cyprien died in
Lafayette Parish in December 1868. He was only 21 years old
and probably did not marry.

6

Raphaël, born probably at
Attakapas in January 1786, married Adèle, another daughter of François
Begnaud, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November
1816. Their son Noël Charles, perhaps called Charles,was born in St. Martin Parish in
December 1822. Their daughters married into the Bourdier, Gautreaux,
and Guchereaux
families. Raphaël's succession record was filed at the St. Martinville
courthouse in June 1860; he would have been 74 years old that year.

Charles
may have married fellow Acadian Sismène Broussard by the early
1850s and settled in St. Martin Parish.

7

Michel-Simon, baptized at
Attakapas, age 3 months, in September 1787, may have died young.

8

Youngest son Louis, born at Attakapas in
November 1788, died in Lafayette Parish in October 1828. The priest
who recorded his burial said that Louis died "at age about 30 years," but he
was 40. He probably did not marry.

Joseph dit Dios, third son
of René Landry and his
first wife Marie Thériot, born probably in Maryland in c1757, was counted him with his family at Oxford, on Maryland's
Eastern Shore, in July 1763. He followed his widowed father and
siblings to Louisiana in 1766 and settled with
them at St.-Jacques on the river, where he married Marie-Rose, called Rose, daughter
of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Melançon, in October 1789. They
lived for a time at nearby Ascension before moving to the western prairies
during the
early 1790s. They settled at Côte Gelée. Their daughters married into
the Bernard and Boudreaux families. Joseph dit Dios died in Lafayette
Parish "at 5:00 p.m." in August 1827, "at age about 70 years"; his
succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following
month and another at the same courthouse in February 1830.

1

Oldest son Célestin, born
at Ascension on the river in c1790, married Marguerite, daughter
of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Granger of
Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May
1810. They settled at Côte Gelée. Their son, name unrecorded, died at birth in
January 1817. Their daughters married into the Duhon, Guidry,
Hébert, and
Meaux families. Célestin died in Lafayette Parish in December
1837; he was only 48 years old; his succession record was filed at the
Vermilionville courthouse in January. His line of the family, except
for its blood, probably died with him.

2

Éloi-Joseph or -Jean,
perhaps also called Éloi-Gilles,baptized
at Attakapas, age 4 months, in April 1795, married Madeleine Adélaïde or Cidalise, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Babin, at the Donaldson church,
Ascension Parish, in July 1817, but they settled on the prairies. Their son Norbert was born on
the Vermilion in February 1820, Théodule was baptized at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 14 months, in June 1828, and
Terence at age 2 1/2 months in January 1830. Their daughter
married into Bernard family.

3

A son, name unrecorded, died at
Attakapas 5 days after his birth in January 1797.

4

Rosémond, born at Attakapas
in June 1798, married Marie Carmelite, called Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste
Comeaux of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish,
in June 1821. Their son Clément, Clémine, or Clémile Rosémond,
also called Rosémond Clémile, was born in St. Martin
Parish in February 1824, Charles Numa, called Numa,in January 1826
but died at age 11 1/2 in August 1837, and Jean
Baptiste Désiré, called Baptiste Désiré and Désiré, was born in December 1827.
Their daughters married Landry cousins. Rosémond, père died in Lafayette Parish in August 1837; he was only 39 years old;
his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June
1838.

4a

Rosémond Clémile married
cousin Marie Irma, called Irma, daughter of fellow Acadian Don Louis Bernard,
at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1849; Marie's
mother was a Landry. Their child, name and age unrecorded,
perhaps a son, died in Lafayette Parish in July 1850, son Charles
Numa le jeunewas born in May 1853, and Arthur in
February 1855. Their daughter married into the Bonin
family. Rosémond Clémile remarried to Félicia, daughter of
fellow Acadian Pierre Zéphirin Doucet, at the Vermilionville
church in February 1866.

4b

Jean Baptiste Désiré married
first cousin Emma, daughter of his uncle Joseph Estinville Landry,
at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1851; Emma's
mother, also, was a Landry. Their son Alcée was born in
Lafayette Parish in May 1853, and Joseph Arthur in February 1865.
Jean Baptiste Désiré's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville
courthouse in February 1868; he would have been 41 years old that year. Emma remarried in
Lafayette Parish in April 1869.

5

Maximilien, born at
Attakapas in May 1800, married Marie, also called Anne, daughter of French or German Creole Alexis Bertrand, père,
in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in May 1850; Maximilien was 50 years
old at the time of the wedding; they evidently had been living together for
years. Their son Joseph was born in Lafayette Parish in July
1851. They also had a much older son named Maximilien,
fils. Maximilien, père died by April 1858, when he was listed
as deceased in a son's marriage record; Maximilien, père's succession
record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in
August 1858; he would have been 58 years old that year.

Maximilien, fils
married cousin Azélia, also called Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Landry,
at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1858.
They settled near Youngsville. Their son Octave was born in
December 1859.

6

Ursin, born at Côte Gelée
in December 1804, married Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles
Granger, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1830.
Their son Émile Ursin was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2
months, in April 1834, Alexandre at age 3 months in August 1836, Charles at age 4 months in July 1839
but may have died at age 11 1/2 in January 1851,
and Sosthène dit Anastase was born in December 1841.

6a

Émile Ursin married Marie Émilie,
called Émilie or Amelia, daughter of French Creole Léon Montet, at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1855; Marie's mother was a
Broussard. Émile Ursin's succession record was filed at the
Vermilionville courthouse in January 1868; he would have been 34 years
old that year. Did his family line survive?

6b

Alexandre married Marie Émilie,
called Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi Comeaux, at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1856. Their son Éloi was
born in Lafayette Parish in July 1858, Ursin le jeune in October 1860,
and Gaston near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia
Parish, in August 1865.

6c

Sosthène married cousin
Olymphe, daughter of Zenon Landry, at the Youngsville church,
Lafayette Parish, in July 1865. Their son Ulysse Bernard was born near
Youngsville in August 1867, and Arthur in June 1869.

7

Joseph Estenville, Estinville, Justinville,
Stenville, or Stainville, born at Côte
Gelée in February 1807, married cousin Marie Marcellite, called
Marcellite, daughter of Jean
Henri Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May
1827. Their son Neuville was born in Lafayette Parish in
February 1830, Joseph Clémile or Clerville in August 1831, Hema was baptized at
the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in August 1833, Jean Darman, Darmase,
Darmas, or Dermas
at age 4 months in April 1835, Julien was born in January 1840, and
Désiré in June 1843. Their daughter married into Billaud
and Landry
families, including to a
first cousin. Marcellite died in Lafayette Parish in March 1861; she
was only 45 years old; her succession record, calling her Marie, was filed
at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1866.

7a

Neuville married first cousin
Madeleine Emma, called Emma, daughter of his uncle Rosémond Landry, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1851.
Emma died in Lafayette Parish in March 1855; she was only 25 years old. Neuville remarried to Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre
Robichaux, at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in
Acadia Parish, in December 1857; strangely, the marriage record notes
that Adèle was "born a Broussard." Their son
Thomas Henry was born near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in July
1861.

7b

Darmas married cousin
Adélaïde Louise or Louisa, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Désiré
Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February
1854; Adélaïde's mother was a Landry. They settled near
Youngsville. Their son André
Eraste was born in November 1859, Emérite,
perhaps their son,in December 1863, and Désiré in July
1866.

7c

Joseph Clémile married cousin Marie Erasie
or Eurasie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Hilaire Bernard, at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1855; Marie's mother was a
Landry. They settled near Youngsville. Their son
Valérien was born in December 1855, and Joseph Félix in March
1865.

7d

Julien married French Creole
Anne Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, Montet at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, in January 1860. They settled near Youngsville. Their son Julien, fils was born in June 1864.

7e

Désiré married cousin Marie
Elisa or Eliza, another daughter of Hilaire Bernard, at the
Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1860; the marriage
also was recorded at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish.
Their son Edgar was born near Youngsville in September 1861,
Romain in August 1866 but died at age 1 in August 1867, Lucius Roch was born in August 1868,
and Jean Clémile in December 1870. During the War of 1861,
Désiré served in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry,
raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

8

Youngest son Onésime, born at Côte Gelée
in October 1810, married cousin Carmelite, daughter of Agricole
Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1827.
Their son Clairville or Clerville was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1828,
Jules in February 1832, Ursin was baptized at the
Vermilionville church, age 11 months, in August 1834, Édouard at
age 7 months in August 1836 but died at age 6 1/2 in September 1842, and
Joseph was born in July 1845. They were living near Abbeville,
Vermilion Parish, in the late 1840s. Their daughter married into the
Mouton family. Onésime died in Lafayette Parish
in August 1861; the Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who
did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that
Onésime died "at age 52 yrs.," but he was two months shy of 51.

8a

Clairville likely married
cousin Celima, Celiva, Seliva, Olivia, or Oliva Landry. Their son Euphémon
was born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in April 1848,
Maximilien le jeune in December 1855,
Onésime le jeune near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in September
1861, Jules near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in
Acadia Parish, in June 1863, Eraste in May 1867, and Ophelias
near Abbeville in February 1870.
Their daughter married into the Sanchez family. A
succession record for Clairville Landry was filed at the St.
Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in May 1866; this Clairville
would have been 38 years old that year; if this was him, the birth date
of two of his sons hints that it probably
was not a post-mortem succession.

8b

Ursin married cousin Suzanne
Onesia, called Onesia, daughter of Gédéon Landry, at the Vermilionville church,
Lafayette Parish, in December 1854. Their son Valérien was
born near New
Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in March 1858,
Séverin near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in July 1862, Demos near New Iberia in March 1865,
and Rodolphe in April 1870.

8b

Joseph married Émilie or
Amelie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Ferdinand Trahan, at the Youngsville
church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1866. They were living near
Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in 1870.

Joseph, fils, also called
Jean, elder son of Joseph
Landry and Marie-Madeleine Boudrot, born at Pigiguit or in
Maryland in c1755, was counted with his parents at Upper Marlborough,
Maryland, in July 1763. He followed them to Louisiana in 1768
with the party from Port Tobacco led by the Breau brothers, lived
with them at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and probably lived with his widowed
mother at St.-Gabriel. He moved to the Attakapas District and married
Marie-Louise, called Louise and Lise, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Bourg of Île St.-Jean and
widow of Pierre Savoie, at Opelousas in July 1789. He was the
only Landry at the time who settled on the Opelousas prairie. His daughter married
into the Richard family. Joseph's succession record was filed
at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in February 1809; he would
have been 54 years old that year. All three of his sons married.
The two who had children of their own remained in St. Landry Parish.
The one son who was childless lived in St. Martin Parish.

1

Oldest son Léandre,
baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in July 1790, married Lise or Louise, daughter
of fellow Acadian Blaise Brasseaux, at the Opelousas church, St.
Landry Parish, in June 1811. Their son Arsène was born in St.
Landry Parish in July 1812, Léandre, fils in April 1814,
Aloyse was "born at sea" in August 1815 and baptized at Opelousas the
following November, Joseph was born in St. Landry Parish in February
1822, Arville in January 1824, Joseph Philemon in December
1828, and Éloi Aladin in October 1830. Their daughters married
into the Benoit, Bourque, Brasseaux, and Prewett families.

2

Julien, born at Opelousas
in February 1792, married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis
Richard, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1813.
They settled in the Bellevue area of St. Landry Parish. Their son
Julien, fils was born in August 1817, Éloi
le jeune in December 1819, and Alphonse in October 1826.
Their daughter married a Richard cousin. Julien, père died in St. Landry Parish in November 1829; he was only 37 years old;
the priest who recorded his burial noted that Julien "received the
sacraments of the church"; his succession record was filed at the
Opelousas courthouse in October 1838.

2a

Alphonse married Amelie or
Amelia,
daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Melançon, at the St.
Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1846. They settled
near Breaux Bridge and then lived near Church Point, then in St. Landry but
now in Acadia Parish, perhaps at a place called Grande Louis, in the
early 1850s. Their twins,
gender, names, and ages unrecorded, perhaps a son or sons, died in March 1851,
son Louis Omer was born in September 1856 but died at age 11 in
September 1867, and Jean Baptiste
died at age 2 in March 1861. Their daughter married into the
Masson family. Alphonse remarried to Euphémie, daughter of
fellow Acadian Sosthène Guidry, at the Breaux Bridge church, St.
Martin Parish, in January 1864.

2b

Julien, fils likely
married Félicité D'arby. Their son Albert was born
in Lafayette Parish in July 1847. Julien, fils may have
remarried to French Creole Marie Dronet. Their son Onésime was born
near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in the early 1850s, Jean Baptiste
in December 1855, Joseph Clémile in March 1857, Nicolas
in October 1866, and Éloi in January 1870.

2c

Éloi le jeune may have
married cousin Marie Bertisse, Bertille, or Herbetile Landry and settled on the upper Vermilion. Their son
Alexandre was born in November 1849, and
Désiré in July 1854. Their daughters married into the Guidry
and LeBlanc
families at Breaux Bridge.

Alexandre married
Euphrasie or Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadian Valsin LeBlanc, at the
Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1869. Their
son Jules was born near Breaux Bridge in February 1870.

3

Youngest son Éloi, baptized at
Opelousas, age unrecorded, in February 1797, married Aspasie, daughter of
fellow Acadian Olivier Guidry of La Grand Pointe, at the St.
Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1815. Éloi died in
St. Martin Parish in November 1842; the St. Martinville priest who recorded
his burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or even
mention a wife, said that Éloi died "at age 45 or 46 yrs.," so this was him.
He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.

~

A Landry who
came to Louisiana from France in 1785 chose to go to the western
prairies:

Jean-Baptiste Landry of
Grand-Pré, age 61, second wife Élisabeth, or Isabelle, Dugas, age
44, and four of their children--Élisabeth-Augustine, age 25, Jean-Baptiste,
fils, age 23, Marguerite-Geneviève, age 20, and Marie-Anne, age
9--crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which
reached New Orleans in August. They did not follow the majority of
their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche but went directly to the Attakapas District to join his cousins and his wife's
family already there. They had no more children in Louisiana. Jean-Baptiste, père died at Attakapas
in October 1787; the priest who recorded his burial said that Jean-Baptiste
was 60 years old when he died, but he was 62. The succession record of
daughter Élisabeth Augustine, widow of Joseph Dugas and
Amand Landry and wife of Jean Baptiste Broussard, père,
was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in May 1823;
she would have been in her early 60s that year. Daughter Marguerite Geneviève,
widow of Joseph Granger, died in Lafayette Parish in January 1831;
she was 66 years old. Daughter Marie Anne, wife of
Joseph Girouard, died in Lafayette Parish in October 1835; the
priest who recorded her burial said that she was 50 years old when she died,
but she was 60. Jean-Baptiste's son settled at Attakapas and died
young, but not before fathering a son of his own, who also probably died
young. This line of the family, then, except for its blood, may not
have survived in the Bayou State.

Jean-Baptiste, fils, called
Baptiste, son of
Jean-Baptiste Landry and his second wife Élisabeth Dugas, born
at Plouër, France, near St.-Malo, in January 1762, came to Louisiana with
his family aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785.
He followed them to the Attakapas District, where he may have
married fellow Acadian Marie Breaux in the late 1780s.
Their daughter may have married into the Roman family and settled on
the river. Baptiste died at Attakapas in December 1787; he was only 25 years old.
His family line may not have survived.

Augustin, born posthumously
at Attakapas in February 1788, may have died young.

~

A Landry from France who
had settled on the river moved on to the Attakapas District during the late
colonial period:

Descendants of Joseph-Marie LANDRY (1778-1852;
René le jeune?)

Joseph-Marie, third and youngest
son of René Landry and Marguerite Babin, born at St.-Servan,
France, near St.-Malo, in April 1778, came to Louisiana with his family
aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, in 1785.
They settled at the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores, north of
Baton Rouge. However, Joseph did not remain on the river. He moved to the
Attakapas District and married Modeste-Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of French Creole
Pierre-Marin Lenormand of New Orleans, at Attakapas in July 1801; the
priest who recorded his marriage said that Joseph had lived at Attakapas "for many
years." In the 1810s, they lived "around the Church" at St.
Martinville. Their daughter married into the Gauthier (Foreign
French, not French Creole) family. Joseph-Marie died in St. Martin
Parish in October 1852; the St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial,
and who did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife,
said that Joseph died "at age 75 yrs."; he was 74; his succession record was
filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November. His three sons
married sisters who also were their cousins.

1

Oldest son Charles, born on Bayou
Teche in September 1805, married cousin Adélaïde Léontine or Léontine
Adélaïde, daughter of French Creole
Joseph Marin Lenormand, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin
Parish, in January 1827. Their son Charles, fils was born in
St. Martin Parish in May 1828 but died at age 2 1/2 in January 1831, Joseph Dorcili
was born in February 1831, and Pierre in December 1841.

Joseph Dorcili married Marie
Clelie, daughter of fellow Acadian Philemon Broussard, at the New
Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in December 1869; Joseph Dorcili was 38
years old at the time of the wedding, so one wonders if this was his
first marriage.

2

Joseph Darcourt, called
Darcourt, born on Bayou
Teche in October 1808, married cousin Marie Louise Euchariste, called
Euchariste, another
daughter of Joseph Marin Lenormand, at the St. Martinville church,
St. Martin Parish, in May 1829. Their son Alexandre Darcourt was born in
St. Martin Parish in November 1834, Césaire in December 1836,
Pierre Numa, called Numa,in November 1841,
Amédée in January 1847, and Alexandre Ismond in June 1852.
Their daughter married into the Berry family.

2a

Césaire married cousin
Adélaïde Clothilde, called Clothilde, daughter of French Creole Pierre Lenormand,
at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1861.
Their son Joseph Henri was born in St. Martin Parish in July
1862.

2b

Numa married cousin
Léocade, another daughter of Pierre Lenormand, at the St.
Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1865. Their son
Willy was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1867.

3

Youngest son Alexandre Victorin,
called Victorin, born on
Bayou Teche in June 1811, married cousin Adèle, yet another daughter of
Joseph Marin Lenormand, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin
Parish, in July 1835. Their son Ernest was born in St. Martin
Parish in July 1836.

~

More Landrys, descendants of immigrants from Maryland, moved
from the river to the western
prairies during the early antebellum
period:

Descendants of Valentin
LANDRY (1771-1823; René le jeune, Abraham)

Valentin, second son of René
Landry and his second wife Anne Landry, and half-brother of
Olivier and Joseph dit Dios, baptized at St.-Jacques on the river, age
unrecorded, in January 1771, married Célestine or Céleste, daughter of
fellow Acadian Joseph Bourgeois, at St.-Jacques in November 1792.
In the 1810s, they moved to La Grand Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.
Their daughters married into the Begnaud, Bourgeois, Breaux,
Sonnier, and
Thibodeaux families. Valentin remarried to Céleste, daughter of
fellow Acadian Joseph Dupuis and widow of Jean Charles Guilbeau,
at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1823; he was 52
years old at the time of the wedding. Valentin, père died "in the morning ... at his home
on Bayou Teche" in September 1823; the priest who recorded his burial said
that Valentin was "age about 56 yrs." when he died, but he was closer to 52;
his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville Parish courthouse 10
days after his death.

1

Oldest son Valentin, fils,
by his first wife, born at St.-Jacques in January 1786, died "at the home of
Éstienne Bourgeois at la pointe" in April 1824. The priest who
recorded Valentin, fils's burial said that he was "age about 30
years" when he died, but he was 38. He probably did not marry.

2

Adélard, by his first wife,
born at St.-Jacques in January 1800, may have died young.

3

Léon or Léonard
Valentin, by his first wife, born at
St.-Jacques in January 1803, married Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Ephrem Robichaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish,
in May 1828. Their son Clairville was baptized at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 5 months, in August 1834.
Their daughters married into the Frederic, Pourciau, Quebedeaux, and
Savoy families. Léon died near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish,
in March 1868; the priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to
give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Léon died "at age
65 yrs."

4

A youngest son, name and age unrecorded,
from his first wife, died in St. James Parish, an infant, in November 1811.

Éloi, elder son of Étienne
Landry and Brigitte Trahan, born at Ascension on the river in
August 1779, married cousin Julienne, daughter of fellow Acadian
Paul Trahan, probably at Ascension in the late 1790s or early 1800s.
They settled at Grand Pointe on upper Bayou Teche and on the lower
Vermilion. Their daughters married into the Benoit,
Bourgeois, Campbell,
Dubois (French Creole, not Acadian), Guidry, and
Maillard families. Éloi's first succession record was filed at the
Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in May 1831; the record says he was a widower
and listed three of his daughters as his heirs. Éloi died in
November 1843; the priest who recorded his burial, and who did not bother to
give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Éloy, as he called him,
died "at age 66 yrs.," but he was "only" 64; the priest also noted that Éloi
was "buried at Perry's Bridge near Abbeville, La."; Éloi's postmortem
succession record was filed at Vermilionville courthouse in January 1844;
the parish clerk who recorded the succession noted that Éloi was
"Grandfather to Lusiphore and Telesphore Landry, the children of
Antoine Landry and Clémence Guidry," so this was him. Only one of his four sons,
Antoine,
created a family of his own.

1

Oldest son Antoine, born probably at
Grand Pointe in September 1803, married Virginie Clementine or Clémence,
called Clementine, daughter of fellow
Acadian François Guidry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, in January 1828. Their son Lusiphor or Onésiphore was baptized at the
Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in April 1830, and Telesphore at
age 3 months in April 1832. Antoine died in
Lafayette Parish in November 1833; he was only 30 years old; his succession
record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse that December.

1a

Onésiphore married cousin
Felicienne, also called Félicia, daughter of French Creole Joseph Dejean, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1851; Felicienne's
mother was a Guidry. They settled on the lower Vermilion
River. Their son Joseph Antoine had
been born in February 1851,
Onésiphore Albert in October 1853, and a child, name and age
unrecorded, perhaps a son, died in either June or July 1854.

1b

Telesphore likely married
fellow Acadian Louisa Hébert and settled near Abbeville,
Vermilion Parish, by the early 1850s. Their son Antoine Dermily
was born near Abbeville in February 1857, and Onésiphore le
jeune in January 1867.

2

Éloi, fils, born at Grand
Pointe in December 1810, died at his father's home on the
lower Vermilion in August 1824. He was only 14 years old.

3

Jean, born at Vermilion in
June 1817, died in Lafayette Parish in August 1831. He, too, was only
14 years old when he died.

4

A youngest son, name unrecorded, died at
Vermilion in December 1818, 8 days after his birth.

Éloi, fils, also called
Éloi Marin, elder son of
Éloi Landry and Marie-Madeleine Melançon, born near St.
Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in January 1808, married cousin Madeleine
Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Theriot,
at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1829; Mathilde's
mother was a Landry; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth
degree of consanguinity in order to marry. Éloi, fils remarried
to cousin Marie Bathilde, Bertille,
or Bertisse, daughter of Alexandre Landry, at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1835. They remained in Lafayette
Parish. Their daughters married into the Guidry and Sonnier families.
Except for its blood, did this family line survive?

~

During the late antebellum period,
Landrys from upper Bayou Lafourche moved west of the Atchafalaya Basin
and settled on the St. Landry prairies and on lower Bayou Teche:

Emérante Gilbert, third son of
Pierre Grégoire dit Landry Landry and Marie-Joséphine
Rousseau, born in Assumption Parish in January 1819, married Adélaïde,
daughter of French Canadian Valéry Roy, at the Opelousas church, St.
Landry Parish, in May 1847. Their daughter married into the Nezat
family. The rest of Emérante's family remained on upper Bayou
Lafourche, so one wonders what brought him to the Opelousas prairies.

Joseph Telesphore, called
Telesphore, fifth son of Henri Landry and Marie Scholastique
Bergeron, born in Assumption Parish in February 1822, married Pamela,
daughter of fellow Acadian Julien LeBlanc, in a civil ceremony in St.
Mary Parish in May 1844, and sanctified the marriage at the New Iberia
church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in July. They
remained in St. Mary Parish, though they may have lively briefly on upper
Bayou Lafourche during the early 1850s. Telesphore may have remarried to fellow
Acadian Marie Célestine Comeaux at the Pattersonville church, St.
Mary Parish, in August 1858.

1

Older son Telesphore, fils, by his
first wife, was born near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in January 1845.

2

Joseph Desilva, by his
first wife, was born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in May 1854.

~

Other LANDRYs on the Western
Prairies

Area church and civil records make
it difficult to link many Landrys in the western parishes with known
Acadian lines of the family there. The priests at Abbeville, St. Martinville,
and Vermilionville, during the late antebellum and immediate post-war
periods were especially negligent in their recordkeeping.
One suspects that some of the Landrys who lived on the western
prairies during the post-war period were Afro Creoles once owned by Acadian
and Creole Landrys:

Anne Landry died at
Attakapas in June 1787. The priest who recorded her burial said that
she was 25 years old when she died, but he did not bother to give her
parents' names or mention a husband.

Dominique Landry died "at
age about 50 years at the home of Joseph Castille [fils, not
père] at la pointe on Bayou Teche" in March 1824. The priest
who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names
or even mention a wife, said that Dominique was "native of Acadie," though
his estimated birth year of c1774 says otherwise. Joseph
Castille, fils's mother was a Landry, so Dominique
probably was a kinsman of these Spanish Creoles.

Uriah Landry's succession
record was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in February
1831. The parish clerk who recorded the succession did not give
Uriah's parents' names or mention a wife.

Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie,
daughter of Alexandre Landry of St. Gabriel on the river and widow of
Jean Baptiste Hébert, remarried to French Creole Alexandre Lanclos
probably in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in 1831.

Julie Landry married
François LeForet, probably Foret, a fellow Acadian, and died in Lafayette Parish
in May 1833, age 30. The Vermilionville priest who recorded her burial did not give her parents' names.

Onésime, also called Édouard,
Landry married French Canadian Azélie Marie or Marie Azélie Lavergne at the Grand
Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1839. The priest who
recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. Their son
Julien was born near Grand Coteau in January 1847, Philemon in
March 1850, and Onésime in February 1853. Their
daughters married into the Pitre and Wantress families.

Joseph Landry's succession
record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in
January 1842. Which of the many Joseph Landrys was this?

Joseph Landry married Aimée
La Porte. Their son Clem was born in St. Martin Parish
in December 1842.

Olivier Noël Landry died in
St. Martin Parish in January 1846. The St. Martinville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
mention a wife, died "at age 23 yrs." Who were Olivier's parents?
Was he Acadian?

Lucien Landry died in St.
Martin Parish in November 1848. He was only 4 years old. The St.
Martinville priest who recorded the burial did not bother to give any
parents' names.

Another Lucien Landry died
in St. Martin Parish, in November 1849. He was only 6 years old.
Again, the St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial did not give any
parents' names.

Dorse
Landry died in St. Martin Parish in December 1852. The
St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother
to give any parents' names, said that Dorse died "at age 12 yrs."
A succession record for Dorsy
Landry was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin
Parish, the following July. Was Dorsy the same as Dorse? If so,
why would a 12-year-old need a succession record?

Émelie Landry married
Onésime, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Babineaux, in a civil
ceremony in Lafayette Parish in September 1850, and sanctified the marriage
at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1851. The
parish clerk and the priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give
the bride's parents' names.

Adolphe Landry married
Marie Nathalie Mayard or Maillard, widow of John Clark, in a civil
ceremony in St. Landry Parish in Auguste 1852. The parish clerk who
recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. They
were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, a few years later. Their
son Alexandre was born near
Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in January 1862. Adolphe's succession
record may have been filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish,
in September 1866.

Victor Aresette Landry
married cousin Marie Azélia Landry. Their son Onille was
born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in
December 1853.

Joseph Landry married
Pouponne Bellard. Their son Joseph Alcide was born near
Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in February 1854.

Arsènne Landry married
Norbert, son of François Hébert and widower of Advelia Landry,
in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in February 1854. The parish
clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.

Théogène Landry, widower of
Marie Uranie Primeaux, remarried Marie Izide, Zaide, or Zeide, daughter of fellow
Acadian Jean Florentin Bourg, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion
Parish, in May 1854. The priest who recorded the marriage did not
bother to give Théogène's parents' names. Their son Joseph
Marcellus was born near Abbeville in March 1862, Jean
Delmas in December 1863, and Aristide
in March 1865. They were living near Brashear, now Morgan, City,
St. Mary Parish, on the lower Atchafalaya, in the late 1860s.

Onésime Landry married
cousin Émelie Landry. Their son Onésime, fils was born
near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in September 1854.

Joseph Landry married Marie
Stelia, perhaps Stelly. Their son Joseph, fils
was born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in
February 1857.

Villery, also called Villiot and
Vilcor, Landry married
Rosalie, also called Eulalie, Boudreaux at the Pattersonville church, St. Mary Parish, in
April 1857. The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to
give the couple's parents' names. Their son Henry was born near
Pattersonville in August 1860.

Nathalie Landry married
Acadian Sosthène Vincent at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish,
in December 1857. The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother
to give the couple's parents' names.

Valcourt Landry married
French Creole Aurelia Langinois, probably Langlinais, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion
Parish, in December 1857. The priest who recorded the marriage did not
bother to give the couple's parents' names. Their twin sons Alcée
and Alcide were born near Abbeville in September 1858.

Élise Landry married French
Creole Pierre Dubois at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in
February 1858. The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to
give the couple's parents' names.

Emma Landry married French
Creole Lasti Dubois at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in
January 1859. The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to
give the couple's parents' names. Was Lasti kin to Pierre?

Jules, son of Eugénie Landry,
was born in Lafayette Parish in March 1859. The Vermilionville priest
who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's name or the
mother's parents' names.

Alice, also called Alix, Landry
married Foreign Frenchman Jean or John Castex in a civil ceremony in
St. Landry Parish in April 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand
Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1862. Both the parish
clerk and the priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's
parents' names.

Octave Landry married Marie
LeBlanc. Their son Octave Henri was born near Brashear,
now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, on the lower Atchafalaya, in April 1862.

Mrs. Frédéric Landry died
near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in October 1862. The priest who
recorded the burial said that she died "at age 80 yrs." One wonders
who her husband may have been.

Henri Landry died in St.
Martin Parish in December 1862. The St. Martinville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, said
that Henri died "at age 4 mths." Was Henri Acadian?

Jean Landry married
Marguerite Frederick at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in
November 1863. The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to
give the couple's parents' names.

Adam Landry married Marie
Landry. Their son Pierre Bienvenu was born in Lafayette
Parish in December 1863.

Édouard Landry died "at
Opel." St. Landry Parish, in February 1864. The Opelousas priest who
recorded the burial did not bother to give any parents' names, mention a
wife, or even give Édouard's age at the time of his death. One wonders
if his death was war-related.

Octave Landry married
Sophia Kennedy. Their son George Sidney was born in St.
Landry Parish in July 1864.

Lovincy Landry married
Aurelia Daigle and settled near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary
Parish, on the lower Atchafalaya, by the mid-1860s. Their son Oleus
Augustin was born near Brashear City in February 1870.

Erma Landry, wife of Clemigle Landry, died in Lafayette
Parish in February 1865. She was only 37 years old. Was she
Acadian?

Joseph Landry married
Elizabeth Topham, probably an Anglo American, in a civil ceremony in
St. Mary Parish in February 1865. The parish clerk who recorded the
marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.

Lucien Landry married
fellow Acadian Octavie Aucoin. Their son Joseph Lydien
was born near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, on the lower
Atchafalaya, in February 1865. Were Lucien and Octavie from the
Lafourche/Terrebonne valley?

Celina Landry married
Washington Rouin in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in
September 1865. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not
give the couple's parents' names.

Alexandre Césaire Landry
married cousin Clothilde Landry. Their son Paul was born
in St. Martin Parish in October 1865.

Virginie Landry
married French Creole Archille Guillory in a civil ceremony probably
in St. Landry Parish in November 1865, and sanctified the marriage at the
Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in
February 1867. The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to
give the couple's parents' names.

Alexandre Landry married
Sylvanie Broussard and settled near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, by
the late 1860s.

Joseph Landry married
Marguerite Dupuis and settled near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but
now in Iberia Parish, by the late 1860s.

Eugène Landry married
Eugelide Bourk, perhaps Bourque, and settled near New Iberia,
then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, by the late 1860s.

Jean Louis Landry married
Marie Palmyre and settled near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now
in Iberia Parish, by the late 1860s.

Joseph Landry married
Celina Landry and settled near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now
in Iberia Parish, by the late 1860s.

Joseph Landry married Nancy
Delcambre and settled near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now
in Iberia Parish, by the late 1860s.

Joseph Landry married Mary
Louvière and settled near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in
Iberia Parish, by the late 1860s.

Édouard Landry died in St.
Martin Parish in February 1866. The St. Martinville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, said
that Édouard died "at age 7 yrs."

Joseph Landry married
Mélasie Belos. Their son Christoval died in St. Landry
Parish, age 2, in February 1866.

Paul Landry died in St.
Martin Parish in April 1866. The St. Martinville priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, said that
Paul died "at age 7 mths."

Celima Landry married Ozémé
Bernard in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in September 1866.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's
parents' names.

Clelie Landry married David
Derouen in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in November 1866.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's
parents' names.

Émelia Landry married
Hilaire Comeaux in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in January
1867. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names.

Alexandre Landry married
Mary Carlin in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in August 1867.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's
parents' names.

Alexandre Landry married
Marie Morvan, probably Morvant. Their son Aurelien
was born near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in September 1867.

Alix or Alise Landry married Alcide
Thibodeaux in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in September 1867,
and sanctified the marriage at the Lydia church, Iberia Parish, in May 1869.
Neither the parish clerk nor the priest who recorded the marriage gave the couple's
parents' names.

Félicie Landry married
Auguste Nepveaux at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in
September 1867. The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to
give the couple's parents' names.

Jo Landry married Madeleine
_____. Their son Eraste was born in St. Martin Parish in
October 1867. Was Jo Acadian?

Désiré Landry died in
Lafayette Parish in October 1867. The Vermilionville priest who
recorded the burial did not bother to give any parents' names, mention a
wife, or even give Désiré's age at the time of his death.

Anatole Landry married
Laure Uval, probably Huval. Their son Léonard was
born near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in December 1867 but died the
following April. Probably married civilly, they may have sanctified
the marriage at the Breaux Bridge church in February 1869. Their son
Joseph was born near Breaux Bridge in February 1869.

Fennely Landry gave birth
to son François Adolphe in St. Martin Parish in January 1868.
The St. Martinville priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the
father's name or the mother's parents' names. Was Fennely Acadian?

Marie Landry "alias Modeste
Ritter," married Neville Briscoe in a civil ceremony in St.
Landry Parish in February 1868. The parish clerk who recorded the
marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. So, was she a
Landry or a Ritter, and was she Acadian?

Élisabeth Landry gave birth
to son Philippe Auguste in St. Martin Parish in February 1868.
The St. Martinville priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the
father's name or the mother's parents' names.

Gabriel Landry married
Lodoiska _____. Their son Gabriel, fils was born near
Iota, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in May 1868. Was
Gabriel Acadian?

Jean Baptiste Landry died
in Lafayette Parish in August 1868. The Vermilionville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, said
that Jean Baptiste died "at age 3 mths."

Celina Landry married
Washington Ronan at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in
October 1868. The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to
give the couple's parents' names.

Alexandre Landry married
Sarah Tompkins in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November
1868. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names.

Edgar, son of Jean Baptiste
Landry and Mary ____, married Julia, daughter of Pierre
Maxille and Élisabeth ____, at the Vermilionville church,
Lafayette Parish, in November 1868. Were Jean Baptiste and Edgar
Acadians?

Clerville Landry married
Aurelia Theriot. Their son Henri was born near New
Iberia, Iberia Parish, in February 1869.

Zulma, daughter of Marie Landry,
married Jules St. Julien, son of Céleste Haines, at the
Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in March 1869. The priest who
recorded the marriage did not give the couple's fathers' names. Were
Marie and Zulma Acadians?

Joseph Landry married
Joséphine Benoit. Their son Charles Joseph was born near
Pointe-aux-Loups, now Iota, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in
March 1869.

N. Landry died near New
Iberia, Iberia Parish, in April 1869. The priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, mention a spouse,
or give the gender of the deceased, said that N. died "at age 65 yrs."
Can recording priests be any flakier than this?

Euphémie Landry married
Demas Frilot at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in May 1869.
The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give the couple's
parents' names.

Cécilia Landry married
Michael Courts in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August
1869. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names.

Phillomaine, probably Philomène,
Landry married Jean Louis Gaspard in a civil ceremony in
Lafayette Parish in August 1869. The parish clerk who recorded the
marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.

Marie Caroline, daughter of Joseph
Narcisse Landry and Marie Caroline Nee, married cousin John
Creg, son of Jacques Creg Barthélémy, at the New Iberia church,
Iberia Parish, in September 1869; John's mother was a Landry.
Was Joseph Narcisse an Acadian?

Cyrille Landry married Lysa
Sarver. Their son Olivier was born near Abbeville,
Vermilion Parish, in September 1869.

Eme Désiré Landry married
Serianne ____. Their son Jean Henry was born in
Lafayette Parish in November 1869. Was Eme Désiré Acadian?

Charles Landry married
Alida Dugas at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in December
1869. The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give the
couple's parents' names.

Fedora, daughter of Octave
Landry and Angelina Girouard, married Pierre Ubalde, son of
Rosémond LeBlanc, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in
December 1869.

Laurinda Landry married
Amas Louis in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1870.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's
parents' names. Was Laurinda Acadian?

André Landry married Marie
Charlot. Their son Florantin was born near Arnaudville,
St. Landry Parish, in March 1870. Was André Acadian?

Jules Landry died "in
Plaquemine," St. Landry Parish, in April 1870. The Opelousas priest
who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names
or mention a wife, said that Jules died "at age 20 yrs."

Albert, son of Simon Landry,
was baptized at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, age
unrecorded, in May 1870. The priest who recorded the baptism did not
give Albert's mother's name.

Jacques Landry married
Mathilda Landry. Their son Oculi was born near
Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in June 1870.

Joseph Landry married
Doralese Baudin. Their son Ambroise was born near New
Iberia, Iberia Parish, in July 1870.

Narcisse, son of Landry Landry
and Thérèse Wiltz, married Louison, daughter of Raphaël Raphaël
and Françoise ____, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish,
in August 1870. Were Landry and Narcisse Acadians?

Lacques, perhaps Jacques,
Landry married Ervilia Clairbat. Their son Ernest
was born near Lydia, Iberia Parish, in September 1870. Was Lacques/Jacques
Acadian?

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Landry families that
settled in the western parishes during the antebellum period cannot be linked by local civil
and church records with other Landrys in the area:

Descendants of Jean Darcourt
LANDRY (c1814-1849-,
René le jeune?)

Jean or Dejean Darcourt, d'Arcour,
or Valcourt Landry
married French Creole Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, Doré
perhaps in St. Martin Parish in the 1830s. Their daughters married into
the Hulin and Picard families. Jean Darcourt died in St.
Martin Parish in January 1849; the St. Martinville priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a
wife, said that Darcour, as he called him, died "at age 35 yrs." Was Jean
Darcourt Acadian?

1

Oldest son Jean
Dorcili or Dorceno,born in St. Martin Parish in September
1837, married cousin Marie Léontine, called Léontine, daughter of French Creole Balthazar
Doré, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in February 1854.
Their son Jean Dorcina was born near Abbeville in March 1855, and
Jean Alcide in May 1862.

2

Alexandre Darcourt, perhaps
the middle son, married fellow Acadian Rosa Labauve and settled in St.
Martin Parish by the mid-1850s. He remarried to French Creole Marie Idia or
Idea, called Idea, Hulin in a civil ceremony at Mobile, Alabama, in
August 1856, and sanctified the marriage at the St. Martinville church, St.
Martin Parish, in September 1867. Their
son Joseph Ulysse was born in St. Martin Parish in September 1859,
Charles Gason in February 1867, and Alexandre Auguste in March 1867[sic].

3

Youngest son Jean
André was born in St. Martin Parish in October 1844.

Descendants of Joseph Levince
LANDRY (?-René le jeune?)

Joseph Leviney, Levinsy, or
Levince Landry married Acadian Uranie, also called Marie,
Broussard and settled in Lafayette Parish probably in the 1840s.

1

Oldest son Joseph, fils,
born in Lafayette Parish in February 1849, married Iréné Séraphine, daughter
of Acadian Édouard LeBlanc, fils, at the Youngsville church,
Lafayette Parish, in May 1870.

2

Lovinski was born in St.
Martin Parish in February 1856.

3

Youngest son Basile was
born in Lafayette Parish in July 1857.

LOUISIANA: LAFOURCHE
VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

Most of the Landrys who came to
Louisiana from France in 1785 chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche:

Claire Landry of Grand-Pré,
age 80, perhaps the most elderly Acadian exile who made it to Louisiana, crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which
reached New Orleans in mid-August. With her were in-laws Claude LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, age 62, and
his third wife Dorothée Richard, age 50.

Prosper Landry, age 60,
crossed on La Bergère with third wife Élisabeth, or Isabelle, Pitre, age 57, and
two sons--Jean-Pierre, age 22, and Simon-Joseph, age 19. Prosper died at
Assumption in October 1797, two days before his wife Élisabeth died there. Prosper was 71 years old
when he died, two
years older than Élisabeth. Their sons settled on the upper
bayou.

Pierre Landry, age 49,
crossed on La Bergère with wife Marthe LeBlanc, age 49, and four children--Joseph-Giroire,
age 19, Jean-Raphaël, age 17, Marie-Madeleine-Adélaïde, age 15, and
Anne-Susanne, age 9. Their daughters married into the Hébert and Penro
families. Pierre died at
Assumption in September 1798; he was 63 years old. Born at Minas
in the 1730s when Acadia thrived under British rule, as a young man he
endured exile to Virginia, deportation to England, seven years of
imprisonment in an English port, and repatriation to France as a young husband.
He spent over 20 years in France, raising a family, working as a colorist, carpenter,
and ploughman, and enduring the frustrations of a stranger living in his own
mother country. In his twilight years, however, in Spanish Louisiana,
Pierre, like hundreds of his fellow Acadians, finally found peace and
tranquility along the banks of Bayou Lafourche. His sons also remained
on the upper bayou. Daughter Marie Madeleine Adélaïde died in
Assumption Parish in April 1853, age 82, one of the last of the Acadian
immigrants to Louisiana to join our ancestors.

Marguerite Landry, age 48,
crossed on La Bergère with husband Jean Richard, age 55, and a 13-year-old son.

Marie-Josèphe Richard, age
46, widow of Hilaire Landry, crossed on La Bergère with two
daughters--Marie-Madeleine, age 16, and Marie-Rose, age 10--who married into the Savoie and
Thériot families.

Marguerite Landry, age 43,
crossed on La Bergère with husband Jean-Baptized Ozelet of Cobeguit, age 42, and
four children, ages 18 to 4.

Geneviève Landry, age 34,
crossed on La Bergère with sister Marie-Josèphe, age 32, and a 3-year-old charge,
François-Julien ____. Marie-Josèphe may not have married. Geneviève married Francisco, son
of Joseph Romagosa of Catalina, Spain, on the upper bayou, in
November 1794, and died
a widow at Charity
Hospital, New Orleans, in September 1796; the New Orleans priest who
recorded her burial said that Geneviève was 55 years old when she died, but she was closer to
45. The surname and fate of their young charge François-Julien is anyone's
guess.

Marie-Madeleine-Adélaïde Landry,
age 22, wife of Jean-Baptiste Comeau, who remained in France, crossed
on La Bergère with a two-year-old son. Marie-Madeleine-Adélaïde remarried twice, first to Jean-Baptiste, son of
French Creole Eustache Mondort and widower of Marie Drolet of
Québec, in August 1798, and then to Juan, son of Josef Antonio Moreno
of Guadalajara, Mexico, in February 1803.

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Simon Landry, age 50,
crossed
on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New
Orleans in early September. With him was wife Marguerite Gautrot, age 59.
Needless to say, they had no more children in the colony. One wonders
if they even survived the crossing from France.

Jeanne-Marguerite, called
Marguerite, Landry,
age 20, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with three younger siblings--Aimable-Étienne, age 19,
Bonne-Marie-Louise, age 17, and Abraham-Isaac, age 13. Jeanne-Marguerite married
into the Cancienne family and died in Assumption Parish in March
1825, age 60. Bonne-Marie-Louise
married into the Marois
family of Italy. Aimable and Abraham settled on the upper
bayou.

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François Landry of
Port-Royal, age 69, three times a widower, crossed on
L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in
early November. With him were two orphaned grandchildren and a nephew--Jean-Charles
Landry, age
18, granddaughter Bonne-Marie-Adélaïde Landry, age 16, and grandson
Jean-Jacques-Frédéric Landry, age 15. François died
at Lafourche in February
1797, age 81. Bonne-Marie-Adélaïde married into the Lejeune
family. Jean-Charles settled on the bayou. Jean-Jacques
may not have married.

Marie-Blanche, called Blanche, Landry, age
52, crossed on
L'Amitié with husband Pierre LeBlanc, age 49, and a 16-year-old
daughter. Blanche died at Lafourche in July
1786, not long after she reached Louisiana.

Marguerite Landry, age 37,
crossed on
L'Amitié with husband Eustache Bertrand, age 49, and four children,
ages 19 to 1.

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Marguerite Landry, age
unrecorded, widow of Jacques Mius D'Entremont III, crossed on La Ville d'Archangel,
the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early December.
With her were son
Jacques Mius D'Entremont IV of Pobomcoup, age 29, his French wife
Marie Herve of St.-Malo, age 30, and five of their children and
stepchildren, ages 11 to infancy. They went not to Bayou des Écores,
north of Baton Rouge, with the majority of their fellow passengers but to upper Bayou Lafourche.

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The Landrys from France
created a third center
of family settlement on Bayou Lafourche:

Jean-Pierre, elder son of Prosper
Landry and his third wife Élisabeth Pitre, born at
St.-Antoine, France, near St.-Malo, in July 1762, became a carpenter in
France. He crossed to Louisiana aboard La
Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, with his family in 1785 and followed them to
upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of fellow
Acadian Dominique Guérin, in February 1786. Isabelle also had
come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, so they may have known one
another in France. Their daughter married into
the Barrilleaux and Thibodeaux families. Jean-Pierre remarried to
Anne-Marie, called Annette, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste
Daigle and widow, perhaps, of Simon LeBlanc, at Lafourche in January 1790. Their
daughters married into the Barrilleaux, Dovier, Guillot,
Mendoza, and Simoneaux families. Jean Pierre, père
died in Assumption Parish in August 1810; he was only 48 years old.
His one son had many sons of his own and settled on the upper bayou.
One of Jean Pierre's daughters, however, settled on
lower Bayou Teche.

Jean-Pierre, fils, by his
second wife, born at Lafourche in November 1790, married Henriette, daughter of
fellow Acadian Pierre Blanchard, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in August 1812. Their son Jean was born in
Assumption Parish in April 1813, Henri Firmin in July 1815 but died at age 2 months the
following September, Marcellin Florentin was born in July 1816, Ferdinand Théodule in November 1818,
Pierre Victor in July 1821, and Rosémond Dormeville or
Dorville in July
1825. They also had a son named Landry, also called L. W. and
Eleme.Their daughters married into the Harvey
and Landry families. Jean died by January 1840, when he was
listed as deceased in a son's marriage record. Most of his sons
married and settled in Assumption Parish.

Marcellin Florentin married Clementine,
daughter of French Creole André Dupré, at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in January 1840. They had a son named
J. B., probably Jean Baptiste, Maurice, called
Maurice.
Marcellin died near Paincourtville in September 1847; the priest who
recorded his burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names
or even mention a wife, said that Marcellin died at "age 30 yrs."; this
Marcellin would have been 31, so this probably was him.

Maurice married Veneda or
Velleda, daughter of fellow Acadian Onésiphore Aucoin, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1867.
Their son Gustave Morille was born near Paincourtville in
March 1870.

Landry married Azéline or
Azéma,
daughter of French Creole Lubin Simoneaux, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in November 1841; Azéline's mother was a Daigle.
Their son Sarasin Cyprien was born near Paincourtville in May
1847, Nicol in August 1852, and Cléobert in October 1854.

Ferdinand Théodule likely
married cousin Eglantine, perhaps also called Euphrosine, Landry. Their son
Omer was born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in September
1845, Joseph in January 1847, Lucien Ultimere in July
1849, and Octave Ulysse in September 1856.

Omer married Amanda,
daughter of fellow Acadian Eugène Comeaux, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1868.

Pierre Victor married cousin
Eléonore, daughter of Alexandre Landry and widow of Narcisse
Trahan, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January
1846. Their son Pierre Désiré or Desire Pierre was born near Paincourtville
in April 1847, and Jean in June 1849 but died at age 9 months in
April 1850.

Désiré Pierre married
Cordilia, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Dugas, at
the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1868.
Their son Pierre Leufroi was born near Paincourtville in
October 1870.

Dormeville married cousin
Alsina or Alexine, daughter of Jean Baptiste Landry, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in May 1847. Their son Gervetus
or Gervey was born near Paincourtville in November 1849 but died
at age 1 1/2 in July 1851, and Augustin Jean Baptiste was born in
February 1853.

Simon-Joseph, younger son of
Prosper Landry and his third wife Élisabeth Pitre, born at
Crehan, France, near St.-Malo, in November 1765, also became a
carpenter in France. He crossed with his family aboard La
Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married
Marie-Luce, daughter of fellow Acadian Marin Bourg at Assumption in
July 1795. Marie-Luce had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville
d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships. Simon-Joseph, père
died in Assumption Parish in December 1815, a widower; he was only 50 years old.

Simon-Joseph, fils, called
Simonet, born at
Assumption in May 1798, likely married fellow Acadian Élisabeth or Élise
Aucoin in Assumption Parish in the 1820s. Their son Octave
was born in Assumption Parish in December 1824, and Simon Ulysse
in January 1830. Their daughter married into the Badeaux
family. Simonet died in Assumption Parish in
June 1833; he was only 35 years old.

Aimable-Étienne, elder son of
Joseph Landry and his second wife Jeanne-Marie-Madeleine Varangue,
born at Cherbourg, France, in December 1765, became an engraver in France.
He came to Louisiana with three younger siblings aboard Le St.-Rémi,
the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and settled with them on upper Bayou
Lafourche. (He and his younger brother Abraham-Isaac may have been the
only direct male descendants of René
Landryl'aîné who
emigrated to Louisiana.) Aimable married Ursule-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadian François
Pitre, in February 1788. Ursule had come to Louisiana aboard
L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships. Their
daughters married into the Barrilleaux, Colon, Foret, and Hunot
families. Aimable Étienne, called Étienne Aimable by the recording
priest, died in Assumption Parish in July 1832; he was 66 years old.

1

Oldest son Étienne-Joseph, born at
Assumption in September 1792, married cousin Rosalie, daughter of
Joseph Landry, perhaps in a civil ceremony, and
sanctified the marriage at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June
1813. Their son Raphaël was born in Assumption Parish in
September 1814 but died at age 1 in September 1815, Édouard Trasimond
was born in June 1818, Cyprien died 10 days after his birth
in September 1824, and Onésime Cleopha, called Cleopha,was born in December 1825. Their
daughters married into the Aucoin, Blanchard, Caillier, and Hill
families. Étienne died near Plattenville in November 1853; the priest
who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names
or even mention a wife, said that Étienne died at "age 64 years"; Étienne
Joseph would have been "only" 61. Rosalie died near Plattenville in
November 1853, less than a week after her husband passed; the priest who
recorded her burial said that she died at "age 68 years." Were Étienne
and Rosalie victims of the yellow epidemic that struck South Louisiana
during the summer and fall of 1853?

Cleopha may have married
fellow Acadian Azélie Boudreaux. Their son Henry Éloy
was born near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in August 1852 but
died at age 7 in July 1859.
Cleopha died in Assumption Parish in October 1853; the
Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Cleopha died at
"age 25 years, 9 months," but he was 27. Was he a victim of the
yellow epidemic that struck South Louisiana during the summer and fall of 1853?
Did his family line survive?

2

Jean-Baptiste, born at
Assumption in March 1799, married Ludivine, daughter of fellow Acadian
Charles Foret, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May
1820, and remarried to Euphrosine, Euphrasie, or Joséphine, called Frosine, daughter of fellow
Acadian Blaise Boudreaux, at the Plattenville church in October 1827.
Their son Jean Baptiste, fils died in Assumption Parish 9 days after
his birth in September 1828, Hermogène was born in Lafourche Interior Parish
in October 1829 but died at age 14 in September 1843, another Jean Baptiste, fils
was born in Assumption Parish in October 1833, and Joseph Léon,
called Léon,in April 1837. Their daughter married into
the Thibodeaux family at New Iberia on lower Bayou Teche.

Léon, by his second wife, married Nathalie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Grégoire Aucoin, at the Labadieville
church, Assumption Parish, in May 1858. Their son Grégoire
Telemaque Joseph was born near Labadieville in June 1859, and
Omer Audressy in June 1861.

3

Paul-Olivier or
Olivier-Paul, born at Assumption in September 1795, died at age 8 in
September 1803.

4

François-Lucien, born at
Assumption in October 1800, may have died young.

5

Youngest son Élie, born at Assumption in
December 1802, married Anne Rosalie, called Rosalie, another daughter of Blaise
Boudreaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November
1825. They lived near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche
Interior parishes. Their son Hermogène was born in April 1828, Eugène Basile,
called Basile,in December 1829, and Jean Baptiste Villiers in February 1832 but died at age 4 1/2 in November 1836.
Their daughters married into the Bertrand (French Canadian, not
Acadian), Braud, Lasseigne, Naquin, and Samson
families. Élie's married sons moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War
Between the States.

5a

Hermogène married Clara
Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Olivier Gautreaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January
1850 or 1851. They settled near the boundary between Lafourche
Interior and Assumption parishes before moving to lower Bayou Teche. Their son Ernest Demetrius
was born in November 1851, Joseph Villier in April 1856,
Charles Arthur in October 1858, and Pierre Oscar near New
Iberia, on lower Bayou Teche, in November 1869.

5b

Basile married Marie, daughter
of Barthélémy Jolibois, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche
Parish, in January 1853; Marie's mother was a Bourg. They
settled near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.
Their son Adolphe Avi was born in June 1860. They, too,
were living near New Iberia, on lower Bayou Teche, in the late 1860s but
may have returned to the upper Lafourche by 1870.

Abraham-Isaac, called Isaac, younger son of
Joseph Landry and his second wife Jeanne-Marie-Madeleine Varangue,
born at Cherbourg, France, in February 1772, crossed with his family aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785
and followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche. (He and his older brother
Aimable-Étienne may have been the only direct male descendants of René
Landryl'aîné who emigrated to Louisiana.) Isaac married
Anne-Olive, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Aucoin, at Assumption in
November 1795. Anne-Olive had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville
d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships. Isaac died in
Assumption Parish in October 1816; he was only 44 years old. His only
son, perhaps his only child, died young, so this family line probably did not
survive.

Joseph-Giroire, elder son of
Pierre Landry, fils and Marthe LeBlanc, born at St.-Servan, France,
near St.-Malo, in January 1766, became an engraver in France. He
followed his family to Louisiana aboard Le Bergère, the second of the
Seven Ships, in 1785 and settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche, where
he married
Marie-Paule or -Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Prosper-Honoré Giroir, in
December 1788. Marie-Paule also had come to Louisiana aboard La
Bergère, so they may have known one another in France. Their daughters married into the Charlet and Landry families. Joseph
remarried to Marie, daughter of French Creole Bernard Capdeville, at
the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1811; Marie's mother was a
Clouâtre. Their daughters married into the Capdeville,
Dufrene,
and Duhon families. Joseph Giroire likely died in Assumption
Parish in June 1849; the Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and
who did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said
that Joseph, "born in Nantes, France," died at "age 86 years," but this
Joseph would have been "only" 83. (Only three Joseph Landrys
emigrated to Louisiana from France--Joseph-Giroire; Pierre-Joseph, called
Joseph, born in January 1770 and died in Iberville Parish in March 1843; and Joseph-Marie, born in April 1778,
who settled at Attakapas. All three were born in the St.-Malo area,
on the other side of Brittany from Nantes.)

1

Oldest son Joseph-Henri,
called Henri, from his first wife, born at Lafourche in March 1791, married Jeanne Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian
Joseph Félix Boudreaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption
Parish, in November 1813. Their son Gatino Joseph Ovid, called
Joseph,was born in Assumption Parish in November 1813, a son,
name unrecorded, died 8 days after his birth in May 1823, Henri Léovinski,
Lovinski,or Lovency, called Lovency,was born in
October 1826, and Octave Emare in July 1832. Their daughters married into the Bourg and Foret families.
Henri remarried to cousin Coralie Mélanie Azélie, daughter of fellow
Acadian Pierre Bourg, at the Plattenville church in September 1835;
Coralie's mother was a Landry; Henri was 44 years old at the time of
the wedding. Their child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died in Assumption Parish at
birth in June 1836. His youngest son moved to the lower Atchafalaya
after the War Between the States.

1a

Joseph, by his first wife, married Marguerite
Élise, called Élise and perhaps also Basalisse, daughter of French Creole Joseph Élie Friou, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1835; Marguerite's
mother was a Bourg. Their son Désiré Joseph was born
near Plattenville in March 1841. They may also have had a son
named Lucien. Their daughters married into the
Gautreaux and
Simoneaux families.

Lucien married Azéma,
daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Aucoin, at the Labadieville
church, Assumption Parish, in July 1869.

1b

Lovency, by his first wife,
married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Fabien
Bourg, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February
1848. Their son Joseph was born near Plattenville in
December 1849, Joseph Adrien in February 1852, and Joseph
Henry in March 1855.

1c

Octave Emare may have married
fellow Acadian Angelina Giroir. Their son Désiré Gustave
was born near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in November 1851.
Their son Louis Oscar was born near Plattenville in September
1853. They were living near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary
Parish, on the lower Atchafalaya. in 1866. Octave remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Ursin
Delaune, at the Brashear City church in
December 1868.

2

Auguste or Augustin,
by his first wife, born at
Assumption in August 1792, married Marie Louise, Luce, or Lucie, daughter of fellow Acadian
Joseph Simon Boudreaux and widow of Hippolyte Brets, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1816. Their son
Julien Auguste or
Augustin, called Augustin, was born in Assumption Parish in May 1821, Eugène
Ansilien in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1824, Joseph Victor
in November 1827, and
Alexandre Zenon Charles in Assumption Parish April 1832. Their
daughters married into the Besse and Templet families and settled on lower Bayou
Teche. Wife Lucie's succession record, dated 9 October 1849, was filed
at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, so
Auguste and Lucie must have lived there, too. Auguste remarried in a civil ceremony to Mélanie, daughter of
French Creole Élie Friou, and
sanctified the marriage at the Plattenville church in April 1855; Mélanie's mother was a Bourg;
Auguste was 62 years old at the time of the church wedding. Evidently
he returned to upper Bayou Lafourche after the death of his first wife.
His married sons moved to the lower Atchafalaya River and to lower Bayou
Teche either just before or during the War Between the States.

2a

Augustin, by his first
wife, married
cousin Gertrude Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Dupuis, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1840; Gertrude's mother
was a Landry. Their son Eugène Augustin was born
near Plattenville in February 1841, Siméon in February 1843, Charles in April 1845,
and Caliste in September 1850. Augustin's succession record
was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in June 1859; he
would have been 48 years old that year. One wonders when the family moved to lower Bayou Teche.

Eugène Augustin married
Marie Apolline Laforest at the Brashear, now Morgan, City church,
St. Mary Parish, in April 1868.

2b

Joseph Victor, by his first
wife, married
Roseline or Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Aucoin, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1847. Their son
Augustin le jeune was born near Plattenville in May 1851, and
Joseph Arthur near Brashear, now Morgan City, St. Mary Parish, on
the lower Atchafalaya, in April 1863. Their daughter married into
the Rodriguez family at New Iberia.

3

Fabien-Maximilien, called
Maxille, from his
first wife, born at
Assumption in February 1795, married double cousin Marie Eugènie, called
Eugènie, daughter
of Jean Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in
February 1817; Marie's mother was a Landry. Their son
Lucien was born in Assumption Parish in December 1817, Auguste in
c1819 but died at age 15 months in November 1820, Auguste Ennode
was born in August 1820, Grégoire, also called Emar,in September 1825, and Constant
or Constantin in April 1830 but died at age 5 in May 1835.
Their daughters married into the Charlet and Hébert families.

3a

Lucien married cousin Marie
Aurora or Aurore, daughter of Ursin Marroy, Maroy,
Maroi, Maroir, Marois, Marroi, or Marrois, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1840; Marie's
mother was a Landry. Their son Joseph Telesphore Anatole
was born near Plattenville in March 1843 but died
at age 1 in March 1844, Joseph Aristide, called Aristide,was born near
Paincourtville in January 1849, Joseph Enau in May 1851,
Joseph Bienvenu in December 1856, and Joseph Camille in
December 1861. Their daughters married Guidry and Landry
cousins.

Aristide cousin married
Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Désiré Crochet, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1870; Marie's
mother was a Landry.

3b

Grégoire married cousin
Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadian Lazare Hébert, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1851; Pauline's
mother was a Landry. Their son Joseph Nicols, called
Nicols,was born near Paincourtville in August 1852 but died
at age 3 in October 1855, Joseph Désiré was born in December 1860,
and Joseph Maxil Lazare in May 1863 but died at age 2 in
September 1865. Grégoire
died in Assumption Parish in November 1863; the Plattenville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names
or even mention a wife, said that Grégoire died at "age 37 years"; this
Grégoire would have been 38, so this probably was him.

4

Ursin-Valéry, called
Valéry, from his first wife, born at
Assumption in November 1796, married cousin Marie Eulalie, called Eulalie, daughter
of fellow Acadian Joseph LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in February 1819; Marie's mother was a Landry.
Their son Théodule was born in Assumption Parish in November 1820, Jules
in April 1821[sic] but died
at age 7 in August 1828, and Rosémond Osémé was born in December
1827. They also had a son named Eugène. Valéry died in Assumption Parish in April 1831; he was only 34
years old. One of his sons moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War
Between the States.

4a

Eugène married cousin
Constance, also called Hortense Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Richard, at
the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1845;
Constance's mother, also, was a LeBlanc. Their son
Nicholas Abraham was born near Plattenville in June 1846 but died at
age 1 in June 1847. Eugène remarried to Marie Armelise or Aselima, daughter
of fellow Acadian Eugène Daigle, at the Paincourtville church in
June 1848. They settled on Grand Bayou, north of Lake Verret,
before moving to lower Bayou Teche after the War Between the States. Their son Joseph Théogène Adrien was born in February 1852, Joseph Philogène, called
Philogène,in September 1854 but died at age 5 in November
1859, Désiré Augustin
was born in April 1860, and Rodolphe Joseph was born near New
Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in December 1868.
Their daughter married into the LeBlanc family in Assumption
Parish.

4b

Rosémond Osémé married
Marcellite or Marcelline, daughter of Marcellin Solar, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in December 1858. Their son Jean
was born near Plattenville in August 1860.

5

Grégoire, by his first
wife, born at
Assumption in August 1799, married Phelonise Geneviève, daughter of fellow
Acadian Joseph LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church, Assumption
Parish, in January 1826, and remarried to Françoise, daughter of fellow
Acadian Jean Baptiste Aucoin and widow of Magloire Landry, at
the Plattenville church in January 1837. Grégoire died in Assumption
Parish in November 1839; he was only 40 years old. He may have had no
sons by either of his wives. If so, his family line died with him.

6

Jean Baptiste,
by his second wife, born in Assumption Parish in June 1818, may have died
young.

7

Youngest son Ives, Yves, or
Ive Jean Baptiste or Jean Baptiste Ives, also called Jose,
born probably in Assumption Parish in the early 1820s, married Delphine Denise,
daughter of French Creole Jean Charles Barbier, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in August 1844; Delphine's mother was an
Aucoin. Their son Camille Grégoire was born in Assumption
Parish in November 1845 but died at age 9 in September 1855, Elphége Sosthène
was born in August 1850 but died at age 5 in September 1855,
Marcellin Achille was born in June 1852, Alexandre Aristide in August
1854 but died at age 1 in September 1855, and Jean Baptiste Arthur
was born near Attakapas Canal, east of Lake Verret, in June 1858 but died
the following October. Meanwhile, Delphine died at age 37 in July
1858, probably from complications of giving birth to son Jean Baptiste
Arthur. Ives likely remarried to fellow Acadian
Sidalise Bourg. They settled at Attakapas Canal until after the
War Between the States. Their son Joseph Vincent was born near
Attakapas Canal in January 1860, and Pierre Étienne in August 1862.
They were living near New Iberia, on lower Bayou Teche, in the late 1860s.

Jean-Raphaël, called Raphaël, younger son of
Pierre Landry and Marthe LeBlanc, born at St.-Servan, France,
near St.-Malo, in August 1768, became a printer in France. He followed
his family to Louisiana aboard Le Bergère, the second of the Seven
Ships, in 1785 and settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married
Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Richard,
in August 1789. Marie also had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère,
so they may have known one another in France. Their
daughters married into the LeBlanc, Martin (Foreign French, not Acadian)
and Richard families. Jean Raphaël remarried to Marie Pélagie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Thibodeaux, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in February 1839; he was 70 years old at the time
of the wedding! Raphaël died in Assumption Parish in February 1840; he
was 71 years old.

1

Oldest son Jean-Raphaël,
fils, also called Louis, from his first wife, born at Lafourche in August 1790, died at
Assumption, age 7, in November 1797.

2

François-Magloire, called
Magloire, by his first wife, born at
Assumption in April 1797, married Françoise or Fanny Rose, daughter of fellow Acadian
Jean Baptiste Aucoin of Baton Rouge, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in January 1817. Their son Marcellin
Faustin was born in Assumption Parish in March 1822 but died at age 3 in
April 1825, and Théophile Raphaël was born in December 1829.
Their daughter married into the Barthe and Boguet families.
Magloire died in Assumption Parish in October 1834; he was only 37 years
old.

3

Louis-Paterne, by his first
wife, born at
Assumption in April 1799, married Marie Rose, called Rose, another daughter of Jean
Baptiste Aucoin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in
December 1818. Their daughter married into the Constance
family. Did Louis father any sons?

4

Henri-Léon, called Léon,
by his first wife, born at
Assumption in April 1801, married Marguerite Susanne, called Susanne, daughter of French
Creole Joseph Cheramie, at the Plattenville church, Assumption
Parish, in January 1821; Marguerite's mother was a Michel.
Their son Léon Raphaël, called Raphaël,was born in Assumption Parish in July 1823,
and Magloire Saint Jeste in March 1827.

Raphaël, while a resident of
Chenière Camanada on the Gulf, married Clémence, daughter of French
Creole François Rigaud or Rigaux of nearby Grand Isle, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1846, six months after a
daughter was born to them. Their son Alcide Raphaël was born in
Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1851.

5

Youngest son Auguste Bernard,
by his first wife, born at Assumption in October 1805, may have died young.

Jean-Charles, son of Eustache
Landry and Marie Landry, born at Plouër, France, near St.-Malo,
in May 1767, followed François
Landry of Port-Royal, perhaps his grandfather, and some younger relatives to Louisiana aboard
L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, in 1785. He settled with
them on upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married cousin Marguerite, daughter of
François Landry, fils and widow of Joseph Savoie, in January 1793.
Marguerite's mother had come to Louisiana from Halifax in February 1765 with
the Broussarddit Beausoleil party, and Marguerite's father
had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766 as a teenager; Marguerite was
born at St.-Jacques in c1771 soon after her parents married. Their daughters married into the Comeaux, Hébert, and Landry
families. Jean Charles died in Assumption Parish in September
1844; the Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not
bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Jean died at "age 77 years,"
so this was him. Marguerite died in Assumption Parish in January 1858,
"age 87 years, 3 months"; the Paincourtville priest who recorded the burial
called her "widow of Jean Landry," so she did not remarry.

1

Older son Édouard-Benjamin,
called Benjamin, born at
Assumption in December 1793, married cousin Françoise Denise, called Denise,
daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Duhon, at the Donaldson church,
Ascension Parish, in February 1816; Denise's mother was a Landry.
Their son Joseph was born in Assumption Parish in May 1818 but died
at age 16 months in October 1819, Marcellin was born in October 1820 but died
at age 5 1/2 in September 1826, Hippolyte Adon was born in
December 1824, Joseph Sosthène, called Sosthène, in November 1830, Martin in
April 1835, Désiré in March 1837,
and Joseph Lima in June 1839. Their daughters married into the LeBlanc, Savoy,
and Vincent (Foreign French, not Acadian) families.

1a

Hippolyte Adon likely married fellow Acadian Augustine,
also called Marie Justine and Justine, Guidry in the early 1840s. Their son
Hippolyte Gédéon was born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish,
in November 1844 but may have died at age 1 1/2 in October 1846,
Jean Baptiste Théophile was born in June 1846 but died at age 1 in
June 1847, Joseph Ernest, called Ernest,was born in December 1849, and Joseph
Willfill in December 1852. Their daughter married a Babin
cousin. Hippolyte Adon died near Paincourtville in September 1854; the priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names
or even mention a wife, said that Hippolyte died at "age 30 years";
Hippolyte Adon would have been only 2 months shy of that age.

Ernest married Hélène or Helena,
daughter of fellow Acadian Eusilien Theriot, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1868.
Their son Joseph Alfred was born near Paincourtville in
August 1870.

1b

Joseph Sosthène married first cousin
Adeline Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Henri Breaux, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1853; Adeline's mother
was Sosthène's maternal aunt, Joséphine Duhon, so Sosthène and
Adeline had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity
in order to marry. Their son Joseph, fils, perhaps also
called Meridier,was born near
Paincourtville in November 1855 but may have died at age 3 1/2 in August
1859. Joseph Sosthène may have been the
Joseph Landry who died near Paincourtville in July 1856; the
priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any
parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Joseph died at "age ca.
26 years," so this probably was him.

1c

Martin married double cousin
Elesile, daughter of Auguste Landry, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in February 1858; Elesile's mother was a
Landry, too. Martin may have died near Paincourtville in
October 1862; the priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother
to give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Martin died
at "age 33-34 years"; this Martin would have been only 27.

2

Younger son Marcellin-Séverin, baptized
at Assumption, age unrecorded, in January 1800, married cousin Delise, Felide, Feline, Phelie, Pheline,
or Selide Marguerite, daughter of Armand Landry, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in September 1821. Their son Firmin
was born in Assumption Parish in October 1824, a son, name unrecorded, died
a day after his birth in September 1826, Marcellus Porphiro was born in February 1828,
a child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died at birth in October 1833, and
another child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died at birth in March 1835.
Their daughter married into the Breaux and Gautreaux families. Marcellin remarried to cousin Adélaïde Marine, daughter of fellow
Acadian Étienne Dupuis and widow of Jean Baptiste Thomas Moïse,
at the Plattenville church in July 1838; Adélaïde's mother was a Landry.
Their son Augustin Séverin, called Séverin and Séverin M., was born in Assumption Parish in August
1839, Maurice Lucien near Paincourtville in September 1844, Joseph Marcel,
called Marcel,
in July 1845, Martial Aristide in July 1847 but died at age 3 1/2 in
May 1851, twins Joseph
Théogène and Joseph Théophile were born in April 1852, Pierre
Martial in June 1854, and
Ernest Ubalde in May 1856.
Their daughters married Dugas cousins.

2a

Firmin, by his first wife,
likely married fellow
Acadian Ethelvina, called Telvina, Hébert and settled near Paincourtville,
Assumption Parish, by the mid-1840s. Their son Firmin Augustin
was born near Paincourtville in December 1851, Joseph Ophild
in December 1853, and Joseph Oleus, called Oleus,near Pierre Part, north of
Lake Verret, in February 1862 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1864. Their daughters married into the
Ozelet and
Savoy families. Firmin remarried to Augustine, daughter of
fellow Acadian Léandre Hébert, at the Paincourtville church in
October 1863. Their son Augustin Alcée was born near Pierre
Part in January 1865.

2b

Marcellus, by his first wife,
married Elmire or Elmina, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin LeBlanc, at
the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1850.
Their son Jean, perhaps also called Joseph,was born near Paincourtville in August 1857
but may have died at age 8 in November 1865.
Marcellus remarried to Anatalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Isidore Rivet,
at the Paincourtville church in July 1861. Their son Augustin
Liviston, perhaps Livingston,was born near
Paincourtville in August 1862. Marcellus died near Paincourtville
in February 1865; the priest who recorded the burial, and who did not
bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that
Marcellus died at "age 37 years," so this probably was him. One
wonders if his death was war-related.

2c

Séverin, by his second wife,
married cousin Adveline, daughter of Sarasin Marroy or Marrois, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1858; Adveline's mother
was a LeBlanc; they had to secure a dispensation
for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry. Their son
Joseph Germain was born near Paincourtville in May 1859,
Joseph Treville in December 1860, Joseph Julien in
January 1865, and Joseph Vileor in January 1867 but died the
following November.

2d

Marcel, by his second wife,
married Ellen, daughter of William Burke, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in February 1868. Their son
Marcellin Richard was born near Paincourtville in November 1868 but
died the following August.

Jean-Jacques-Frédéric, son of
Germain Landry and Cécile La Garenne, born at Cherbourg,
France, in July 1770, followed his grandfather, François Landry of
Port-Royal, and some other relatives to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the
fifth of the Seven Ships, in 1785. He followed them to upper Bayou
Lafourche and was still a bachelor on the upper bayou in 1798. One
wonders if he married and created a family of his own.

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During the late colonial period, Landrys
from Maryland moved from the Acadian Coast to upper Bayou Lafourche,
adding substantially to that center of family settlement:

Anne-Isabelle Landry, wife
of Joseph Comeaux and sister of Pierre dit LaVielliarde, died at Assumption in October 1797. The
priest who recorded her burial said that she was 34 years old when she died,
but she probably was closer to 38.

Descendants of Vincent LANDRY
(c1727-1798; René le jeune,
Antoine)

Vincent, son of Joseph
Landry and his first wife Marguerite Forest, born probably at
Minas in c1727,
was deported with his family to Maryland in 1755. He married fellow Susanne,
daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre-Joseph
Godindit Châtillon dit Préville and his first wife
Marie-Josèphe Bourg of Minas, in Maryland in October 1765; Vincent's
father's second wife was Susanne's mother, so Vincent married his
step-sister. They
went to Louisiana with an infant son perhaps with the first contingent of
exiles from Maryland in 1766. They had more children in Louisiana.
Spanish officials counted them in New Orleans in July 1767, so they may have
taken their time following their fellow exiles to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques,
where Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the
river in 1769 and on the same side of the river at nearby Ascension in 1770
and 1777. Vincent was "singer of the church" at Ascension. Two
of his daughters, born in December 1768 and July
1770, were baptized at New Orleans in May 1769 and February 1771,
so the family spent some time in the city. They were living on upper Bayou Lafourche by the mid-1790s.
Their daughters married into the Aucoin, Bourque, Mazerolle,
Melançon, and
Ozelet families. Vincent died a widower at Assumption in March
1798; the priest who recorded his burial said that Vincent was 74 years old
when he died. Two of his three sons settled on the Lafourche.

1

Oldest son Charles-Calixte,
called Calixte, born in Maryland in c1766, died at Assumption in
October 1798. He was only 32 years old and may not have married.

2

Grégoire, born probably at
Ascension in c1772, married Françoise-Luce, daughter of fellow Acadian
Jean-Baptiste Hébert, at Assumption in February 1797. Françoise
had come to Louisiana in 1785 with her widowed mother aboard La Bergère,
the second of the Seven Ships. Their son
Charles-Hubert, called Hubert, was born at Assumption in November 1797,
Joseph-Damas in December 1800, Vincent le jeune in December 1802,
Emery Jean or
Jean Emery in October 1806 but died at age 6 in October 1812, Jean
Baptiste Reynard, also called Jean St. Bernard and Jean
Baptiste Bernard, was born in March 1812, and Grégoire, filsin April 1818.
Their daughters married into the Bolot, Cancienne, and Hébert
families. Grégoire died in Assumption Parish in January 1849; the
Plattenville priest who recorded his burial, and who did not bother to give
any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Grégoire died at "age
78 years," so this was him. Half of his six sons created families of their own
and settled on the upper bayou.

2a

Hubert married Euphrosine or
Euphrasie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Grégoire Aucoin, at the Thibodauxville
church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1827. They lived near
the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes. Their son
Simon André was born in September 1830, Jean
Baptiste Marcellin in June 1839, Hubert, fils died a day
after his birth in June 1842, and Joseph Hubert was born
posthumously in March 1848. Hubert, père died in Assumption Parish in
February 1848; he was only 50 years old.

Simon André married
Zéolide or Zéolite, daughter of fellow Acadian Florentin Blanchard, at
the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1853.
Their son Damase or Damas was born near Plattenville in November 1853
but died at age 13 1/2 in August 1867,
Augustave Eliss was born near Labadieville in January 1855,
Cyprien in September 1862 but died at age 5 in November 1867,
Louis Joseph was born near Plattenville
in December 1865, and Alcée Éloi in December 1869.

Jean Baptiste Marcellin
married Zulma, daughter of fellow Acadian Hubert Arceneaux,
at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in March 1859.
Their son Xavier Telesma was born near Labadieville in
September 1867.

Joseph Hubert married
Celima, another daughter of Hubert Arceneaux, at the
Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1868.

2b

Grégoire, fils died in
Assumption Parish in February 1836. He was only 18 years old and
probably did not marry.

2c

Vincent le jeune married
Élisabeth, called Élise,
daughter fellow Acadian Alexandre Arceneaux, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in January 1838. Their son, name and
age unrecorded, died in Assumption Parish in January 1839,
Augustave died at age 13 days in September 1846, Désiré Alfred,
called Alfred,
was born in January 1850 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1851, and
Oscar François was born in January 1862.
They also had a son named Lusignan V. Their daughters married into the Delaune and Landry
families.

Lusignan V. married cousin
Alice, daughter of Joseph Landry, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in February 1868. Their James
was born near Paincourtville in December 1868 but died the
following August.

2d

Joseph Damas died in Assumption Parish in March 1845. The
Plattenville priest who recorded his burial, and who called him Joseph Damaze,
said that he died at "age 40 years," but he was 44. Did
he ever marry?

2e

Jean Baptiste Bernard married
Basilise, daughter of fellow Acadian Florentin Blanchard, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1849; Jean Baptiste
Bernard was 38 years old at the time of the
wedding. Their son Joseph Serta Amédée was born near
Plattenville in March 1853. Their daughter married into the
Boudreaux family.

3

Youngest son Joseph-Vincent, born at Ascension
in September 1778, married Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian
Pierre Bourg, at Assumption in May 1804. Their son Victor
was born in Assumption Parish in July 1808, Ursin Romain in July
1810, Joseph Basile, called Basile,in June 1820, and Léon Valéry in November
1822. Their daughters married into the Boudreaux family. Joseph Vincent remarried to Renée Eulalie, daughter of fellow
Acadian Isaac Hébert and widow of Isaac Doiron, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1827; Joseph was 48 years old
at the time of the wedding. Renée had
come to Louisiana as an infant aboard La Bergère, the second of the
Seven Ships from France, in 1785. Their son Zenon Zéphirin,
also called Jean,was born in Assumption Parish in October
1827.

3a

Basile, by his first wife,
married Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Naquin, at the
Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1841. Their
son Joseph Scailaire was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in
December 1843, Noël Léopal, called Paul,in December 1845, Aurestile Auguste
in July 1851, Joseph Willier in May 1853, Marcellin
Marcellus, called Marcellus,in April 1857, Émée Théophile,
called Théophile,in March 1860, and Volsi in March
1863. Basile died in Lafourche Parish in August 1868; he was only
48 years old; a "petition for tutor," listing his children, was filed at
the Thibodaux courthouse in September 1870.

Paul married Ursule,
daughter of French Creole Michel Sevin, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1868; Ursule's mother was an
Hébert.

3b

Ursin, by his first wife,
married Rosalie, daughter of French Creole Hyacinthe Rousseau, at
the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1842;
Rosalie's mother was a Delaune. Their son Dejauri or
Dejori was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1843 but died
at age 1 1/2 in September 1844, Joseph Léomer was born in June
1844, and Ursin Arseneaux posthumously in June 1846, nine months
after his father died. Ursin, père died in Lafourche
Interior Parish in September 1845; the Thibodaux priest who recorded his
burial said that Urcin, as he called him, died "at age 38 yrs.," but he
was only 35.

3c

Zenon, by his second wife,
married cousin Zéolide, daughter of Pierre Cedotal, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1849; Zéolide's mother
was an Hébert. Their son Octave was born near
Paincourtville in June 1850 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1851, and
Martial was born in July 1854. Their daughter married into
the Oufnac family.

3d

Victor, by his first wife, may
have died in Lafourche Parish in June 1857. The Thibodaux priest
who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents'
names or mention a wife, said that Victor died "at age 51 yrs."; this
Victor would have been a month shy of 49. Did he marry?

Pierre dit La Vielliarde,
elder son of Pierre Landry and Anne-Marie Doucet, born
probably at Pigiguit in c1732, married Anne-Élisabeth or -Isabelle Dupuis probably at
Pigiguit. The British deported them to Maryland in 1755.
Colonial officials counted them at Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern Short, in
July 1763. When Pierre dit La Vielliarde brought four of his children
to Louisiana with the first contingent of exiles from Maryland in 1766, he
was a widower. His daughter by his first wife married into the
Comeaux family. He remarried to cousin Marie-Josèphe,
daughter of Paul Landry, at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in November 1767.
She gave him more children, including sons. Spanish officials counted
them on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabanocé in 1769 and on the
same side of the river at nearby Ascension in 1770 and 1777.
Their daughter Marie-Françoise, born in October 1768, was baptized at New
Orleans in April 1769, so they spent some time in the city. Pierre
dit La Vielliarde owned three slaves at Ascension in 1777 and 11 in 1778,
an impressive number for an Acadian at that time and place. He,
Marie-Josèphe, and their children were living on upper Bayou Lafourche by the
late 1780s. Pierre dit La Vielliarde held 15 slaves on the
upper bayou in 1791, and owned 16 slaves there seven years later. His
daughters by his second wife married into the Breaux, Dupré, LeBlanc, and
Zeringue families. Pierre dit La Vielliarde died in
Assumption Parish in June 1815; the Plattenville priest who recorded his
burial said that "Pedro of Acadia," as he called him, died at "age 86 yrs." His older sons remained on the
river, but his younger sons and a grandson by his second son settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.
(This grandson, Baptiste dit Petit-René, is the great-great grandfather of Troy Landry of Pierre Part,
Assumption Parish, an
alligator hunter who stars in the History Channel's popular series, "Swamp
People.") Pierre dit La Vielliarde's second wife and
widow, Marie-Josèphe, died in Assumption Parish
in February 1836; the Plattenville priest who recorded her burial said that she was
83 years old when she died, but she was closer to 92.

1

Oldest son Joseph, by his
first wife, born in Maryland in c1756, may have married cousin Osite,
daughter of François-Sébastien Landry. Their son
Joseph-Alexandre was born at Ascension in January 1789. Did
the family line survive?

2

Pierre-Alexis, by his first
wife, born in Maryland in c1762, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian
François Hébert, at St.-Gabriel in November 1786. Their son
Jean-Louis le jeune was born at St.-Gabriel in August 1787, Jean-Baptiste
le jeune, called Baptiste dit Iréné, Baptiste dit Petit René,
and Jean-Baptiste dit Tirné,in November 1788, Amand- or Arnaud-Apollinaire at Ascension in July 1792,
Jean-Augustin at Assumption in January 1794, and Ursin in May
1796 but died at age 16 months in October 1797. Their daughters married
into the Blanchard, Crochet, and Freoux families.
Pierre-Alexis's oldest son (the direct ancestor of alligator hunter Troy
Landry) settled on upper Bayou Lafourche perhaps near
his paternal grandfather, but the younger sons
remained on the Acadian Coast.

2a

Baptiste dit Petit René married
Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Templet, at the
Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1811. They
lived on the Acadian Coast before moving to upper Bayou Lafourche. Their son Valérien
or Valéry was born near Baton Rouge in December 1813, Treville
or Troiville in Iberville
Parish in February 1816, Auguste Gervais in Assumption Parish in June
1821 but died at age 17 months in November 1822, and a son, name
unrecorded, died the day of his birth in March 1823. Their
daughters married into the Achée, Falcon, and Simoneaux families. Baptiste dit
Petit René remarried to cousin Euphrosine,
called Frosine, daughter of German Creole Jean Malbrough, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in August 1824; Euphrosine's mother was a
Comeaux.(Baptiste dit Petit Renée and Euphroisineare
alligator hunter Troy Landry's paternal great-great grandparents. Euphrosine's paternal grandfather, Nicolas Marcoff,
a German, and his family, including Euphrosine's father Jean, had come to Louisiana from Port
Tobacco, Maryland, in 1769 aboard the ill-fated ship Britannia [several of the author's ancestors, both paternal and maternal, also were
aboard that ship]. Euphrosine's mother's parents, who were Comeaus, had
come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1768 with the Breau clan.
Euphrosine's maternal grandmother, Anne-Isabelle Landry, was a sister
of Baptiste dit Petit Renée's grandfather, Pierre dit La Vielliarde.)
Baptiste dit Petit Renée and Euphroisine's son Paul
Valsaeur or Valsin, called Valsin and also Vincent,was born in Assumption Parish in June 1825, Clément
in February 1833, Joseph Auguste in May 1841, and Octave
Onésime in 1844. Their daughters married into the Aucoin, Blanchard, Giroir,
and Simoneaux
families. Baptiste dit Petit René may have died near
Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in May 1869; the priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or even
mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste, as he called him, died at "age
83 years"; Baptiste dit Petit René would have been "only" 80. Two
of his older sons married first cousins.

Valéry, by his first wife, married
first cousin Eméranthe, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Blanchard,
at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1836;
Eméranthe's mother was Valéry's paternal aunt, Colette Landry,
so they probably had to secure a dispensation for second degree of
consanguinity in order to marry. Their son Landry
was born posthumously in Assumption Parish in January 1838.
Valéry died in Assumption Parish in November 1837; he was only 24
years old.

Landry married
Estelle, daughter of German Creole Pierre Houfnag, Oufnaud,
or Oufnac, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1862;
Estelle's mother was a Theriot. Their child, name
unrecorded, perhaps a son, died near Paincourtville 2 days after
its birth in October 1862. Landry remarried to cousin
Emma, daughter of fellow Acadian Gédéon Hébert, at the
Paincourtville church in January 1867; Emma's mother was a
Landry. Their son Ulysse Cletus was born near
Paincourtville in April 1870.

Treville, by his first
wife, married first cousin Clarisse, another daughter of Louis
Blanchard, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in
April 1842; they, too, had to secure a dispensation for second
degree of consanguinity in order to marry. Their son
Camille Jean Baptiste was born near Paincourtville in February
1849, Joseph Schuyler in August 1852, and Louis Cletus near Pierre Part, north of Lake Verret,
in April 1868. Their daughter married into the Daigle family
at Pierre Part.

Valsin, by his second
wife, married Rosa or Rose, daughter of fellow Acadian Ursin LeBlanc,
at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1845.
Their son Joseph Émile was born near Paincourtville in
February 1849, and Félix Zéphirin in May 1854. Their
daughters married onto the Simoneaux family. Valsin remarried to Euranie or Uranie,
also called Oralie and Manie, daughter of fellow
Acadian Zéphirin Dupuis, at the Paincourtville church in June
1857. Their son Camille Franklin was born near
Paincourtville in March 1858, Laurent in July 1859, Aurelien
in September 1861, a son, name and age unrecorded, died in
December 1869, and Léopold Odressy was born in October 1870.

Joseph Auguste, by his
second wife, married Marie, another daughter of Pierre
Houfnag, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in
February 1862; Marie's mother was a Theriot. Their son
Joseph Émile was born near Paincourtville in December 1862,
and Joseph Arish Anatole in December 1866. During the
War Between the States, Joseph Auguste, called
J.
A. in the Confederate records, may have served in Company H of
the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in
Assumption Parish, which fought in Louisiana. Joseph
Auguste remarried to Leora Angella, called Angela Léocade,
20-year-old daughter of Corsican Immigrant Jean Baptiste Melini or
Meligni, at Napoleonville, Assumption Parish, in June 1886; Angela's mother was an Hébert;
Joseph Auguste was 45 years old at the time of the wedding, old
enough to have been his new bride's father. They settled near Pierre
Part, north of Lake Verret. One of their sons,
Edmond Joseph, was born at Pierre Part in December 1899. Joseph Auguste died at Pierre Part
in July 1919; he was 78 years old.

Edmond Joseph married cousin Elidia
Hébert. One of their sons was Duffy.

Duffy married Myrtle
Matherne, a
descendant of Alsatian Germans who have lived in Louisiana since the
early 1720s. Their son Troy, the History Channel's
"King of the Swamp" and resident of Pierre Part, is a tenth-generation descendant of his family's
Acadian progenitor, RenéLandry le jeune.

Octave, by his second
wife, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Trasimond Daigle,
at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1867.
Their son Joseph Étienne was born near Paincourtville in
December 1870.

Clément, by his second
wife, married Marie, daughter of Spanish Creole Domingue Perera,
also called Perere, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1867.
Their son George Clément was born near Paincourtville in
April 1868.

2b

Jean Louis le jeune married cousin Anne Marine, called Marine, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Hébert,
at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1812.
They remained on the river.

2c

Armand Apollinaire married cousin
Marie Marthe, called Marthe, another daughter of Charles Hébert,
at the St.-Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1817. They
remained on the river.

3

Fabien, by his first wife,
born in Maryland in c1764, was living with his father, stepmother, and seven
half-siblings on upper Bayou Lafourche in January 1788. Did he ever
marry?

4

Armand, by his second wife,
born probably at Ascension in c1770, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Grégoire Blanchard, at
Assumption in January 1795, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow
Acadian Anselme Le Borgne de Bélisle, at Assumption in April 1799.
Their son Valéry-Pierre-Nicodemus was born at Assumption in June 1800
but died at age 2 1/2 in December 1802, and Eugène-Gervais was born in February 1802.
Their daughters married into the Landry and LeBlanc families.
Armand died in Assumption Parish in July 1846; the Plattenville priest who
recorded his burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
even mention a wife, said that Armand died at "age 76 years."

Eugène Gervais, by his second
wife, married cousin Françoise Carmelite, daughter of Jean Landry, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1821; Françoise's
mother, also, was a Landry. Their son Aristide was born in
Assumption Parish in August 1828, and Drosin in April 1833. Their daughters married into the
Babin,
Breaux, Gilbert, and
LeBlanc families and perhaps into the Nicolas or
Nicholas family as well. Françoise Carmelite died near
Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in January 1864; she was 59 years
old. Eugène died near Paincourtville two months later, in March 1864; the priest who recorded the burial,
and who did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a
wife, said that Eugène died at "age 62 years," so this probably was him.

Aristide married cousin
Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Blanchard, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1850; Joséphine's
mother was a Landry; they had to secure a dispensation for
third degree of consanguinity in order to marry. Their son
Joseph Téofile was born near Paincourtville in February 1851, Joseph Elphége
in December 1852, Joseph Adrian in July 1854, Joseph
Artus October 1856, and Victor Lucien in April 1858.

Drosin married Uranie or
Ulanie,
daughter of French Creole Anselme Mollere, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1854; Uranie's
mother was a LeBlanc. Their son Joseph Désiré was born
near Paincourtville in December 1856, Pierre Robert in
February 1861, Jean Wilson in November 1866, and Joseph
Siméon in April 1869.

5

Jean-Louis, called Louis,
by his second wife, born at Ascension in October 1772, died at Assumption in
October 1803. The priest who recorded his burial said that Louis was
"about 27 years" old when he died, but he was 31. He
evidently did not marry.

6

Paul-Eusèbe, by his second
wife, born at Ascension in August 1774, died at Assumption in April 1794.
He was only 19 years old and probably did not marry.

7

Jean-Baptiste, called
Baptiste, from his
second wife, born at Ascension in February 1780, married Marguerite,
daughter of fellow Acadian Mathurin Trahan, at Ascension in May 1806.
Their son Landry Arseman[sic] was born at Ascension in March 1807,
Henri Alcide, called Alcide,in Assumption Parish in November 1810, André Dorsin
or Dorsino, called Dorsino,
in October 1812, Emérant Jean in January 1815, Hermogène Séverin,
called Séverin,
in February 1817, Landry Anatole, called Anatole,in July 1822, and Basile Pierre
or Pierre Basile in June 1830 but died at age 3 in June 1833. Their daughters married into the
Feray,
Gautreaux, and Verret
families. Jean Baptiste probably died near Paincourtville in November
1861; the priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any
parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Jean Bapt., as he called
him, died at "age 83 years"; Baptiste would have been a few months shy of
82.

7a

Alcide married cousin Colette Luce Landry probably in Assumption Parish in the
late 1820s or early 1830s. Their son Joseph Jean Baptiste,
called Jean Baptiste,
was born in Assumption Parish in September 1831, André near
Paincourtville in November 1843 but died at age 9 in December 1852, and Séverin
was born in June 1845 but
died at age 1 in July 1846. Their daughters married into the
Dugas,
Dupré, and LeBlanc families. Colette died near
Paincourtville in August 1864; she only 53 years old.

Jean Baptiste married
Clementine, daughter of fellow Acadian Augustin LeBlanc, at
the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1851.
Their son Joseph Victor was born near Paincourtville in
December 1864.

7b

Emérant Jean married first
cousin Phelonise Barbe, daughter of his uncle Armand Landry, at
the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1835.
Their son Pierre Joseph was born in Assumption Parish in March
1836 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1837, another Pierre Joseph
was born in June 1838, and Joseph Léonce died 8 days after
his birth in April 1845.

Pierre Joseph married cousin Rosema, daughter
of fellow Acadian François Crochet, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in April 1858; Rosema's mother, also, was
a Landry.

7c

Dorsino married cousin Marie
Elezile,
called Elezile, daughter of Grégoire Landry, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in October 1841. Elezile died near
Plattenville in July 1843; she was only 27 years old. Did they
have any children?

7d

Séverin married
Zulmée Catherine, daughter of Spanish Creole Manuel Fernandez, at
the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1842.
Their son, name unrecorded, died in Assumption Parish a day after his
birth in January 1843.

7e

Anatole married cousin Adillia, Adelia,
or Adelise, daughter of Vincent Landryle jeune, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in June 1862. Their son Pierre
Elibee was born near Paincourtville in June 1865, and Désiré
in December 1867 but died at "age a few days" in January 1868.

8

Youngest son Henri, by his second wife,
born at Ascension in October 1781, married Marie Scholastique or Scholastique Marie, daughter of fellow
Acadian Baptiste Bergeron, at St.-Jacques on the river in May 1805. Their
son Michel Henri was baptized at Assumption, age 4 months, in June
1806, Drosin Mathurin was born in August 1810, Jean Baptiste
Mourville, Murville, Meurville, or Merville in October 1812, Angèl died 4 days after his birth in January
1815, Joseph Telesphore, called Telesphore,was born in February 1822, and Pierre
Bienvenu, called Bienvenu,in July 1827. Their daughters married into the Landry, Robichaux,
and Simoneaux families. Henri died "in the 'catastrophy[sic] at Last Island'" in
August 1856; he was 75 years old. A son and a grandson settled on
lower Bayou Teche.

8a

Michel Henri married Marie Delphine,
called Delphine, daughter
of fellow Acadian Joseph Gravois, at the Donaldsonville church,
Ascension Parish, in February 1831. Their son Michel Vileor
was born in Assumption Parish in December 1831, Joseph Basile
in January 1835, Maurice Henri, called Henri, in September 1836, Jules Marc
in April 1838, Siméon Lusignon, called Lusignon,in February 1840, Joseph Désiré
near Paincourtville in March 1846, Nicholas Joseph in December 1847,
and Michel Murville, called Murville le jeune,in July 1849. Their daughters
married into the Boudreaux, Hébert, MacCarty, and Simoneaux
families. A son married on lower Bayou Teche after the War of
1861-65 but returned to the upper Lafourche.

Henri died near
Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in December 1854. The
priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any
parents' names, said that Henry, as he called him, died at "age 19
years"; Maurice Henri would have been only 18. He probably did
not marry.

Lusignon married Elmire,
daughter of fellow Acadian Thomas Clovis Dugas, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1858. Their
son Joseph died near Paincourtville 12 days after his birth
in January 1861, and Joseph Laurent Adam, a twin, was born in
January 1862 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1864. Lusignon remarried to Augustine, daughter of
fellow Acadian Simon Comeaux, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, November 1865. Their son Joseph Henri
was born near Plattenville in September 1866, Joseph
Rodolphe in December 1867, and Joseph Anatole near Pierre
Part, north of Lake Verret, in May 1870.

Jules Marc married
Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Isidore Rivet, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1864. Their
son Joseph Aldes was born near Paincourtville in April 1866.

Joseph Désiré married
Irma, daughter of Jean Baptiste Benit, Benite, or
Bernique, at
the Pattersonville church, St. Mary Parish, in February 1867; Irma's
mother was a Boudreaux. Their son Eno Alexandre
was born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in February 1868

Murville le jeune married
Cécile or Cécilia,
daughter of Aglae Allen or Allain, at the Paincourtville church,
Assumption Parish, in January 1870.

8b

Murville married Marie Fidelie
or Fidelise,
daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Dugas, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1833. Their
son Joseph James, called James, was born near Paincourtville in February 1845,
Désiré Bernard in July 1847 but died 2 days after his birth, Jean Joseph Aniou
or Eno, called Eno,
was born in October 1849, Joseph Pierre Bienvenu in October 1851,
and Joseph Paul in December 1853.
Their daughters married into the Charlet, Laverre, and LeBlanc families. Murville
remarried to Munircca or Manurva Jane, called Jane and Jeanne, daughter of Anglo American Henry
Newchurch, at the Paincourtville church in November 1856.
Their son Henry was born near Paincourtville in October 1857,
Joseph Sylvain, also called Joseph Dasilva, in July 1860
but died at age 10 months in May 1861, Thiburse, age
unrecorded, died in April 1861, and Henry Lee was born in
December 1866.

James, by his first wife,
married cousin Emma, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Blanchard,
at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1868,
the day before his brother Eno married in the same church; Emma's
mother was a Landry.

Eno, by his first wife,
married Carmelite, daughter of Spanish Creole Narcisse Sanchez,
at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1868,
the day after his brother James was married in the same church.

8c

Drosin Mathurin married
Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Gravois and widow of
Pierre Rousseau, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish,
in August 1835. Drosin died in Assumption Parish in November 1836;
he was only 26 years old. Did his family line die with him?

8d

Telesphore married Pamela,
daughter of fellow Acadian Julien LeBlanc, in a civil ceremony in
St. Mary Parish in May 1844, and sanctified the marriage at the New
Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in July.
They remained on the lower Teche, where Telesphore may have remarried.

8e

Bienvenu married Laurenza
daughter of French Creole Joseph Capdeville, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1847; Laurenza's
mother was a Blanchard. Their son Joseph Superville
was born near Paincourtville in February 1852. Their daughters
married Blanchard cousins. Bienvenu died near Paincourtville
in August 1852; he was only 25 years old.

Descendants of Étienne LANDRY
(c1734-1789; René le jeune, Abraham)

Étienne, younger son of
Pierre Landry and Anne-Marie Doucet, born probably at Pigiguit
in c1734, married fellow Acadian Dorothée Babin in Acadia or Maryland
in the 1750s, and remarried to cousin Marie-Josèphe Landry
probably in Maryland in the late 1750s or early 1760s. Colonial
officials counted them with a daughter at Baltimore in July 1763.
They came to Louisiana with the first contingent of exiles from Maryland in
1766. Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of
the river at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in 1769 and on the same side of the river
at nearby Ascension in 1770 and 1777. Étienne's daughter by his first wife married into
the Hébert family. Étienne died at Ascension in October 1789;
the priest who recorded his burial said that Étienne was 57 years old when
he died. Marie-Josèphe did not remarry. She died in Assumption
Parish in November 1810; she was 77 years old. Their sons settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.

1

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, by his
second wife, born probably at Cabanocé in c1767, married Marie-Madeleine,
called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste dit Petit
Jean Hébert, at nearby St.-Gabriel in November 1789. Their son
Alexandre le jeune was born at Ascension in September 1791, Siméon
or Simon
in February 1794, Calixte-Donat
at Assumption in August 1797 but died at age 14 months in October 1798,
Paulin was born in June 1800, Jean-Baptiste, fils in December 1801 but died in January 1802
10 days after his birth, and a second Jean-Baptiste, fils, called
Baptiste, was born in
March 1803. Their daughters married into the Crochet, Dupuis, and
Simoneaux families. In 1797, Jean Baptiste owned five slaves on his
farm at Assumption, an impressive number for that time and place.
The following year, he held only two slaves. He died in Assumption
Parish in July 1838; the priest who recorded his burial said that Jean
Baptiste was 73 years old when he died, but he probably was closer to 71.
One of his sons settled in Ascension Parish. The others remained in
Assumption Parish.

1a

Siméon/Simon married Rosalie
Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Giroir, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1821. Their son
Hilarion or Ilarion Avasse was born in Assumption Parish in October 1822, Sylvain Luc
or Luc Sylvanie in October 1825,
Vincent Théodule in January 1830, Siméon Clairville in
January 1835, Ursin Cyrille in
September 1836, and Zéphirin Arsène in May 1838. Their
daughters married into the Landry, LeBlanc, and Simoneaux
families, one of them to a first cousin. Siméon/Simon may have
died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in March 1855; the priest
who recorded the marriage, and who did not bother to give any parents'
names or even mention a wife, said that Simon died at "age 67 years";
Siméon/Simon would have been only 61. Two of his youngest sons and
at least one grandson moved to
lower Bayou Teche after the War Between the States.

Hilarion likely married Célestine
Coupel, Copel, Copelle, Coupele, or Coupelle. Their son Eusilien Honoré
was born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in April 1845, Joseph
Clerville in November 1860, and Joseph Lusion, perhaps
Lucien,was baptized at the Pierre Part church, age
unrecorded, in July 1863. Their daughter married into
the Vane family. His oldest son moved to lower Bayou
Teche after the War Between the States.

Eusilien married
cousin Dometille, daughter of fellow Acadian Arsène Crochet,
at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in May 1864;
Dometille's mother was a Landry; they
had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity
in order to marriage. Their son Joseph Clairville
le jeunewas born near Pierre Part in April 1865, and
Joseph Ulysse near New Iberia on lower Bayou Teche in
February 1869.

Ursin Cyrille likely died
near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in August 1852. The
priest who recorded the burial, and who gave the father's but not
the mother's name, said that Augustin Cirillo, as he called him,
died at "age 11 months," but Ursin Cyrille would have been 16 years
old. Someone who reviewed the burial record wrote
"Ursin" in the margin, so this probably was him.

Luc Sylvanie married
Arvilla, Arrivila, or Olvida, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis André Talbot, at
the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1856.
Their son Maurice Lusignan was born near Paincourtville in
September 1859, Robert Théophile in March 1862, and
François Estefin near Plattenville in January 1864. They
were living near New Iberia, on lower Bayou Teche, in the late
1860s.

Zéphirin Arsène, called
Sifrin by the recording priest, married Ophelia, daughter of fellow
Acadian Pierre Babin of Lafourche Parish, at the Charenton
church, St. Mary Parish, in January 1868.

1b

Alexandre
married Judith or Juliette, daughter of fellow Acadian Jérôme Melançon, at
the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1822. They
settled in Ascension Parish, probably on the river.

1c

Jean Baptiste, fils
married Rosalie or Rosaline, daughter of French Creole Simon Simoneaux, at
the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1825; Roseline's
mother was an Hébert. They settled near the boundary
between Assumption and Ascension parishes. Their son Jean Baptiste Grégoire
was born in September 1832, Valéry
or Valère Théophile
in March 1835, Jean Baptiste
Eusilien in July 1837, and Zéphirin was
baptized at the Plattenville church, age unrecorded, in December 1839.
Their daughters married into the Aucoin, Blanchard, Crochet,
Domingues, Landry, and
Simoneaux
families.

Valère Théophile married first cousin Marie, daughter
of his uncle Siméon Landry, at the Paincourtville church,
Assumption Parish, in January 1860; they had to secure a
dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
Their son Sarasin Simon was born near Paincourtville in March
1867.

1d

Paulin died in Assumption
Parish in May 1833. The priest who recorded his burial said that
Paulin was 30 years old when he died, but he was 32. He probably
did not marry.

2

Ignace, by his second wife,
born probably at Cabanocé in June 1769, died at Ascension, age 5 1/2,
in October 1774.

3

Youngest son Joseph-Alexandre,called Alexandre
or Alexis, from his second wife,
born at Ascension in December 1775, married Céleste or Colette, daughter of fellow Acadian François Hébert of
St.-Gabriel, at Assumption in February 1796. Their son
Joseph-Alexandre, fils was born at Assumption in February 1797, Hippolyte
in August 1798, Grégoire-Mathurin in
November 1800, Simon Alexandre in February 1805, Victor Béloni in
November 1808, Valérien in November 1814 but died at age 2 1/2 in
July 1817, and Dominique Valérien, called Valérien, was bornin August 1818
but died the following March. Their daughter married into the Landry
and Trahan families. One of Alexandre's sons "returned" to the
river. The others remained on Bayou Lafourche.

3a

Hippolyte married Françoise
Hélène,
daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Giroir, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1820. Their son,
name unrecorded, died in Assumption Parish the day of his birth in
October 1821, Hippolyte Joseph Simon, called Joseph,
was born in December 1824 but died at age 12 in December 1836, and Joseph Sylvanie, called Sylvanie,
was born in August 1826
but died at age 1 in July 1827. Their daughter married into the
Robichaux family. Hippolyte died near Paincourtville,
Assumption Parish, in January 1853; he was only 54 years old. Did this family line, except for its blood,
survive?

3b

Grégoire Mathurin married
Delphine Denise, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Giroir, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1821. Their
son Didier Grégoire was born in Assumption Parish in May 1822 but
died at age 7 years, 4 months, in September 1829, and a son, name
unrecorded, died a day after his birth in October 1828. Did this
family line survive?

3c

Simon Alexandre married Anne Carmelite,
called Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Aucoin, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in May 1824. Their son Landry Joseph,
called Joseph and also Elegi,was born in Assumption Parish in July 1825. Their daughters
married into the Dugas and Hébert families. Simon died in Assumption Parish in April 1832; he was only 27 years old.

Joseph married cousin
Pamela, daughter of Jean Pierre Landry, fils, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in April 1847; they had to secure a
dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
Their son Marcellin was born near Paincourtville in September
1850, Louis Xavier in August 1860, Aimée Camille in May 1867,
and Maurice Barthélémy in August 1869. Their daughter married a Landry
cousin.

3d

Joseph Alexandre, fils
married cousin Anne Eméranthe, called Eméranthe, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexis
Hébert, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in
February 1825. They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.

3e

Victor Béloni married cousin Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Barrilleaux, at
the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1830; Émilie's
mother was a Landry. Victor Béloni may have died in
Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1849; the Thibodaux priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names
or even mention a wife, said that Victor died "at age 40 yrs.," so this
probably was him. Did he father any sons?

Descendants of
François-Sébastien LANDRY (c1741-1808; René le jeune?)

François-Sébastien Landry,
born at Minas in c1741, was deported with his family to Maryland
in 1755. He married fellow Acadian Marguerite LeBlanc probably
in Maryland.
They came to Louisiana in 1767 with the second contingent of exiles from
Maryland and settled at St.-Gabriel, where they had more children and where
Spanish officials counted them on the "right bank ascending" in 1777; they owned three slaves by then.
Their daughters married into the Aucoin and Giroir families,
and perhaps into the Landry family as well. By 1788,
Étienne, now a widower, had moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Spanish officials also counted him and his
children in 1791. He owned five slaves by then, a remarkable number
for an Acadian living in that area at that time. He remarried to
Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadian Honoré Giroir, at Lafourche in
August 1793. They held five slaves on the upper bayou in 1798. François-Sébastien, described as
"res. Assumption," died in nearby Ascension Parish in December 1808; the
Donaldson priest who recorded his burial said that François was age 70 when he died,
but he was closer to 64. Only his oldest son seems to have created a
family of his own.

1

Oldest son Lucas-Alexandre, called
Luc and
Alexandre, from his
first wife, born at St.-Gabriel or Ascension in c1772, married Françoise-Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadian Anselme
Le Borgne de
Bélisle, at Ascension in February 1793. Their son
Joseph-Liduvino was born at Ascension in July 1798, Auguste Alexandre
Norbert, also called Auguste Luc and Luc, at Assumption in June 1804, François Véronique at
Ascension in May 1806, Cyrille in Assumption Parish in March 1810, and Angèl
died at age 2 months in March 1813. They also had
an older son named Apollinaire Luc, called Polinaire. Their
daughters married into the Hébert and Landry families.
Lucas Alexandre may have died in Assumption Parish in December 1845; the
Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give
any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Allen Luc, as he called
him, died at "age 67 years," but Lucas Alexandre would have been in his
early 70s.

1a

Apollinaire Luc married cousin Élise, daughter of Alexandre Landry, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in November 1818. Their son Sidoine
Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, was born in Assumption
Parish in August 1822, Louis
or Luc Joseph in January 1832 but died at age 3 months the
following April, Joseph Désiré was born in February 1840 but died
at age 1 1/2 in November 1841, and Joseph Cleopha, called
Cleopha,was born in
June 1842. Their
daughters married into the Babin, Breaux, Dugas, Guidry, and Rodriguez
families.

Sylvanie married
Élisabeth, called Élise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph LeBlanc, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1844.
Their son Joseph Nicolas was born near Paincourtville in
September 1845, and Valentin Numa near Plattenville in
November 1846.

Cleopha married Eugénie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Drosin Hébert, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1869.
Their son Louis Xavier was born near Paincourtville in
September 1869.

1b

Joseph Liduvino may have been
the Joseph, son of Alexander Landry, who died
near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in November 1820. The priest
who recorded the burial said that Joseph died at "age 20 yrs.," but
Joseph Liduvino would have been 22. He probably did not marry.

1c

Auguste Luc married cousin
Iréné Clémence, another daughter of Alexandre Landry, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in November 1824. Their son Gervais
Landry was born in Assumption Parish in June 1826 but died at age 7
in May 1833, Luc
Alexandre, called Alexandre,was born in June 1828, David Jules in February 1836 but died
the following month, and Auguste Luc, filswas born in February 1837.
Their daughters married into the Barbier, Daigle, Landry, Savoy, and Simoneaux
families.

Luc Alexandre died near
Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in September 1853. He was
only 25 years old. Did he marry?

1d

Cyrille married Marie
Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Gravois, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1832. They settled
near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes. Their son
Luc was born in July 1833, Cyrille Gille
in August 1838, Zenon Telesphore, called Telesphore,in
August 1845, Jean François Elphége in April 1847,
and Michel Richard, called Richard,in April 1852
but died at age 1 in July 1853. They also had a son named
Joseph. Their daughter married
into the Daigle family.

Luc married Élisabeth,
daughter of Spanish Creole Perique Vega or Vegas, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1860.
They lived near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension
parishes. Their son Bertil Elphége was born in November
1860, Barthélémy Luc in August 1866, Pierre Paul in
June 1868, and Jean Félicien in June 1870.

Telesphore married Claire,
daughter of fellow Acadian Henry Landry Daigle, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1867.
Their son Joseph Henry, called Henry, was born near
Paincourtville in January 1868 but died the following June, and
Juste Cyrille was born in September 1869.

Joseph married cousin
Adrienne, daughter of fellow Acadian Adrien Eusilien LeBlanc,
at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1870.
Their son Joseph Ernest was born near Paincourtville in
November 1870.

2

Ignace, by his first wife,
born at St.-Gabriel in February 1773, may have died young.

3

Youngest son Laurent-Baptiste, by his
first wife, born at St.-Gabriel in May 1775, also may have died young.

Descendants of Joseph LANDRY
(c1758-1815?; René le jeune, Pierre)

Joseph, younger son of François
Landry and Dorothée Bourg, born in Maryland in c1758, came to
Louisiana probably in 1766 with his father and two older siblings and followed them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married cousin Osite, daughter of Pierre dit Pierrot à
Jaques Landry and widow of Pierre Bujole, in February 1778.
They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche by the late 1780s and lived near the
boundary between Ascension
and Assumption parishes. Their daughters married into the
Blanchard,
Daigle,
Dugas,
Dupuis, Guidry, Landry, and Marois families. Joseph may have
died in Assumption Parish in February 1815; The Plattenville priest who
recorded his burial called him Josef, "age 59 yrs., married to Osita
Landry," but gave no parents' names. Osite may have died in Assumption
Parish in October 1843; the Plattenville priest who recorded her burial, and
who did not give her parents' names, said that she died at "age 79 years," a
widow.

1

Oldest son Édouard, born at Ascension
in August 1780, died at Lafourche, age 12 1/2, in January 1793.

2

Joseph, fils, born at
Lafourche in March 1789, may have died young.

3

Another Joseph, fils, born
at Lafourche in November 1791, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian
Pierre Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May
1814. Joseph, fils died in Assumption Parish in August 1815;
the Plattenville priest who recorded his burial said that Josef, as he
called him, died at "age 25 yrs.," but Joseph, fils was only 23.
His line of the family died with him.

4

Auguste- or Augustin-Gérard, -Géran,
or -Gérant, baptized
at Assumption, age unrecorded, in October 1798, married cousin
Marie Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of Luc Landry, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in April 1822. Their son Joseph Augustin was
born in Assumption Parish in March 1827, Joseph in January 1831, another Joseph
died at birth in October 1834, Pierre Guillaume was born in June 1838,
Joseph Géran, perhaps called
Gérant,in March 1843, and Alfred, perhaps their son, died 5 days after his birth in June
1846. Their daughters married into the Alonso and Savoy families.
Auguste Gérard may have died near Paincourtville,
Assumption Parish, in September 1853; the priest who recorded the burial,
and who did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife,
said that Auguste died at "age 55 years," so this probably was him.

4a

Joseph Augustin may have died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in September 1853;
the priest who recorded the burial called the deceased's father Auguste,
did not give the mother's name, and said that Gustave, as he called the
deceased, died at "age 27 years"; Joseph Augustin would have been been
26 years old then. Or he may have been the Joseph, son of Auguste
Landry and Delphine Landry, who married Louise, daughter of fellow
Acadian Jean Baptiste Theriot and great-granddaughter of Olivier
Terriot, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in
August 1858. Their son
Joseph Samuel was born in Ascension Parish in September 1861, and
Joseph Sabin near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in October 1869.

4b

Joseph Géran, called Gérant by
the recording priest, may have married fellow Acadian Noemie Bujole
at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1870.

5

Basile-Valéry, called
Valéry, born at Assumption in January 1801, died at age 2 years, 7
months in August 1803.

6

Hubert-Marin, born at
Assumption in November 1802, married cousin Azélie, daughter of
French Creole Maurice Simoneaux, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in February 1827; Azélie's mother was a Landry.
Hubert remarried to Victoire or Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier LeBlanc,
at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1841. Their
son Joseph Olivier, called Olivier,was born near Paincourtville in April 1845.
Their daughter married into the Babin family. Hubert
Marin, called Hubert Martin by the recording priest, who did not bother to
give any parents' names or even mention a wife, died in Assumption Parish in
January 1846; he was only 43 years old.

Olivier died in Assumption
Parish in June 1865. He was only 20 years old and probably did not
marry. One wonders if his death was war-related. Except for
its blood, his family line died with him.

7

Youngest son Ursin Jean,
also called LéonLouis, born at
Ascension in January 1807, married Adeline, also called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian
Pierre Lubin LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish,
in September 1834. Their son Joseph Pierre was born in
Assumption Parish in October 1835 but died at age 5 months the following
March, Joseph Laurent, called Laurent,was born in April 1837, Joseph Lusignan,
called Lusignan,in July 1839, Joseph in November 1841, Joseph Gesner
in January 1844, and Joseph Murville in July 1852.

7a

Lusignan married cousin
Léocade, daughter of Ferdinand Romagossa, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in January 1866; Léocade's mother was a
Landry.

7b

Laurent married Anatalie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Isidore Rivet and widow of Marcellus
Landry, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in
November 1866. Their son Joseph Wilfrid was born near
Paincourtville in May 1870.

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During the late colonial period,
Landrys from France who had gone to river
communities, including three brothers, moved on to upper
Bayou Lafourche, where the brothers' lines survived. Some of their
descendants moved down bayou into Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes:

Anselme Landry died in
Interior Parish in October 1810. He was 67 years old. His succession inventory was filed
the day of his death.

Marie Olive Landry,
Anselme's daughter and widow
of Paul Dominique Boudreaux, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May
1836. She was 70 years old.

Jean-Sébastien dit Bastien,
second son of Charles Landry, fils and Marguerite Boudrot, born at
St.-Servan, France, near St.-Malo, in August 1767, came to Louisiana with
his family aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, in 1785
and followed them to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge. Bastien
married cousin Victoire- or Marie-Constance, called Constance, daughter of Pierre-Abraham
dit Pitre Landry, at Ascension in January 1798. Constance was a
native of Louisiana who parents had come to the colony from Maryland in the
late 1760s. Bastien and Constance lived near the boundary of what became
Ascension and Assumption parishes before moving down bayou. Their daughters married into the
Bernard, Henderson, and Richard families. Bastien
died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1830; the Thibodauxville priest who recorded
his burial said that Sébastien was 60 years old when he died, but he was 63;
his succession inventory was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in
September. Half of his six sons died in their mid-20s and do not seem
to have married. His middle son and a younger son carried on the family line in
Assumption Parish.

1

Oldest son Sébastien-Rosémond,
called Rosémond, born at Ascension in October 1798, died in Lafourche
Interior Parish in April 1824. He was only 25 years old and probably did not
marry.

2

Pierre-Thiburse, born at
Ascension in August 1802, died in Ascension Parish at age 11 in November
1813.

3

Magloire Benoît, born at
Ascension in July 1804, married Marie Justine, called Justine, daughter of fellow Acadian
Louis Babin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April
1825. Their son Joseph was born in Assumption Parish in December
1826, Léon in February 1828, Théodore Joseph in February 1832, twins, perhaps sons or one son, died at
birth in March 1835, Pierre Casimir, called Casimir,
was born in April 1836 but died at age 6 months the following October, an
infant, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died in September 1839,
Joseph Camille, called
Camille,was born in November 1840, Joseph Théophile, called Théophile,
near Paincourtville in February 1846, and Eusèbe Anatole in August
1850. They also had a son named Adélard. Their
daughter married into the Babin and Dugas families. Magloire Benoît died
near Paincourtville in December 1858; the priest who recorded the burial,
and who did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife,
said that Magloire died at "age 54-55 years"; he was 54. One
of his sons moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War Between the States.

3a

Joseph married Marie Irma,
called Irma, daughter of fellow Acadian Hermogène LeBlanc, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1849. Their
son Joseph Nicolas, perhaps called Nicolas,was
born near Paincourtville in November 1853 but may have died at age 9
months (the recording priest said 22) in August 1854, Joseph Vouilli was born in December 1857,
and Joseph Paul in March 1870.
Their daughter married into the Rivet family.

3b

Théodore Joseph married
Anaïse, also called Adélaïde, daughter of French Creole Jérôme Mollere, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1856; Anaïse's
mother was a LeBlanc. Their son Joseph Grismore was
born near Paincourtville in August 1858, and Jules Laurent in
July 1862.

3c

Adélard married Scholastique,
called Colastie, daughter of fellow Acadian Valéry Breaux, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in January 1857. Their son Joseph
Faronelle or Porere was born near Paincourtville in January 1858
but died at age 7 in April 1865,
Joseph Aristide, called Aristide,was born in October 1861 but died at age 1 1/2 in April 1863, and Cyprien
was born in October 1866. Adélard remarried to Armelise,
daughter of fellow Acadian Hermogène LeBlanc, at the
Paincourtville church in February 1869. Their son Paul Maidie
was born near Paincourtville in May 1870.

3d

Léon married cousin Ozile or
Osile,
daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Daigle, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in February 1857; Ozile's mother, also, was a
Babin. Their son Édouard Sabin was born near
Paincourtville in December 1858, and Joseph Fernand in July 1866.

3e

Camille married Alexandrine,
daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Comeaux, at the Pierre Part
church, Assumption Parish, in April 1861. Their son Joseph Adam
Lusignon , called Lusignon, was born near Paincourtville in
October 1863 but died at age 10 months in August 1864, and Joseph
Théophile was born near Plattenville in November 1869.

3f

Théophile married cousin
Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexis LeBlanc, at the Lydia
church, Iberia Parish, in November 1869; Julie's mother was a Landry.
Their son Bert was born near Lydia in July 1870.

4

Césaire, born probably at
Ascension in c1806, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1833.
He was only 27 years old and probably did not marry.

5

Ursin Damas, born in
Ascension Parish in December 1812, married Adèle, daughter of George
Adolphe or Adolpho and widow of Mathurin Hébert, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in June 1849; Adèle's mother was a Boudreaux;
Ursin Damas was 36 years old at the time of the wedding
Their son Gustave Oscar was born near Plattenville in November 1852,
and Joseph Clet near Paincourtville in April 1857 but died near
Paincourtville, age 12 1/2, in January 1870.

6

Youngest son Henri Clairville,
called Clairville, born in Assumption Parish in July 1817, died in
Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1844. He was only 26 years old.
Like two of his older brothers who died in their 20s, he probably did not
marry.

Jean-Jacques, fourth son of
Charles Landry fils and Marguerite Boudrot, born at Châtellerault,
Poitou, France, in January 1775, came to Louisiana with his family aboard
Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed them to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge. Jean-Jacques married
Marie-Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Dugas, at Ascension
in January 1804. They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary of
what became Ascension and Assumption parishes before moving down bayou
during the early
antebellum period. Their daughter married into the Babin
family. Jean Jacques died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October
1828; he was only 53 years old; his succession inventory was filed at the
Thibodauxville courthouse in January 1829. Only his younger sons created families of their own, one in
Ascension, the other in Lafourche.

1

Oldest son Dominique died at
Ascension 3 days after his birth in August 1806.

2

Adélard, born in Ascension
Parish in January 1813, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1827.
He was only 14 years old.

3

Joseph Octave, born in
Assumption Parish in June 1815, married Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow
Acadian Nicolas Orillion, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension
Parish, in January 1834. They remained in Ascension Parish, where
Joseph Octave remarried.

4

Youngest son Hubert Eustache,
called Eustache, born in
Ascension Parish in September 1817, married Pélagie, 17-year-old daughter of
fellow Acadian Théodore Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church,
Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1838. They lived near the boundary
between Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes, probably near Chacahoula. Their son Joseph Eustache
was born in January 1841, Émile Philippe, called Philippe, in December 1842, Amédée
Léonard in February 1845, Aurestile in August 1847, Joseph
Nicolas in December 1852, and Joseph Paulin in September 1857.
Their daughters married into the Esteve
and Martin families. Two of his sons settled on lower Bayou
Teche after the War Between the States.

4a

Joseph Eustache married cousin
Euselia, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin Basile Henry of
Terrebonne Parish and widow of Ferjus Landry, in a civil ceremony
in Terrebonne Parish in May 1865, and sanctified the marriage at the
Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, the following month; Euzelia's
mother was a Landry. Their son Joseph Profile was
born near Chacahoula in September 1867. They were living
near Lydia, Iberia Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in 1869.

4b

Philippe married cousin
Octavie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Hébert of Terrebonne
Parish, at the Lydia church, Iberville Parish, in June 1870; Octavie's
mother was a Landry.

Charles, fils, also called
Charles François and Charles Valentin, fifth son of Charles Landry,
fils and Marguerite Boudrot, born at
Chantenay, near Nantes, France, in May 1777, came to Louisiana with his
family aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, in 1785.
He followed them to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, before moving on to upper
Bayou Lafourche, where he married cousin Henriette
Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Charles Theriot, at
Assumption in April 1805; Henriette's mother was a Landry.
Their daughters married into the Augeron and Cantrelle
families. Only Charles, fils's youngest son seems to have
created a family of his own.

1

Oldest son Charles Célestin,
born in Assumption Parish in February 1807, may have died young.

2

Fostin Alexandre, born in
Ascension Parish in February 1809, also may have died young.

3

Eteloin, born in Lafourche
Interior Parish in September 1815, also may have died young.

4

Youngest son Jacques Tourville, born in
Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1824, married Clothilde, also called
Clotine and Claudine, daughter of
fellow Acadian Florentin Boudreaux of Terrebonne Parish, in a civil
ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1842, and sanctified the marriage
at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1845.
They lived on the Gulf at Chenière Caminada, Jefferson Parish, near Grand
Isle, and in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes. Their son Jean Baptiste Sosthène,
called Sosthène,
was born in July 1844, Joseph Célestin at Bayou Black, Terrebonne
Parish, in November 1848, Éloi Osémé in December 1850, Octave
Florestine in April 1855, Aubin
Jacques in February 1858, and François Omer near Montegut in
April 1867. They also had an older son named
Amédée, unless he was Éloi Osémé.

4a

Sosthène married cousin
Amelia, also called Émilie and Melia, daughter of fellow Acadian Evariste Aucoin, at the Houma
church, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1867; Amelia's mother, also, was a
Boudreaux. Their son Evariste was born in Terrebonne
Parish in May 1869.

4b

Amédée married cousin Marie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Boudreaux, at the
Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1870.

~

Throughout the antebellum period, more
Landrys, most of them descendants of exiles from Maryland, moved from the river to Bayou Lafourche and added
many new lines to that center of family settlement. Many of them
settled down bayou in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes:

Joseph-Donat,
called Donat, son of Joseph Landry and Marguerite LeBlanc,
born near St.-Gabriel in March 1773, married Geneviève,
daughter of French or Spanish Creole Louis Estivan, Stephen,
Stieven, or Stiven of Manchac, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in January 1805; Geneviève's mother was a Babin.
Their daughters married into the Babin and Bourgeois families.
Donat died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1820; he was only 47
years old; a petition for a family meeting in his name was filed at the
Thibodauxville courthouse a few weeks before his death.

1

Oldest son Alexandre, born in
Assumption Parish in September 1813, married Evelina, also called Melina, Elina, and Lina, 17-year-old daughter
of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Bertrand, at the Thibodauxville
church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1832. Their son
Edmond Amédée, called Amédée, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1835, Augustin
in February 1838 but died at age 6 1/2 in August 1844, Alexandre Joseph Auguste,
called Joseph,
was born in March 1841, Louis in August 1844, Joseph Paulin
died at age 2 in August 1852, and Bernard Marcel was born in March
1854. They also had a son named Arsène. Their daughters
married into the Borne and Duroche or Durocher
families, one of them at Vacherie, St. James Parish.

1a

Joseph married Marie Alphonsine,
called Alphonsine, daughter of French Creole Alphonse Borne, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Parish, in October 1860; Joseph's sister Louisa
married Alphonsine's brother Joseph. Joseph and Alphonsine's son
Joseph Joachim was born in Lafourche Parish in November 1861, Louis le jeune in February 1866,
and Arthur near Vacherie, St. James Parish, in July 1868.

1b

Amédée married Azémilia,
daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Bourgeois, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1863.

1c

Arsène married Marie, daughter
of French Creole Louis Peltier, at the Thibodaux church,
Lafourche Parish, in January 1865; Marie's mother was a Boudreaux.
Their son Louis Oelcar, perhaps Oscar,was born in
Lafourche Parish in April 1867.

1d

Louis married Osite, daughter
of François Rodrigue of Lafourche Parish, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in
January 1870, and sanctified the marriage at the Vacherie church, St.
James Parish, in February.

2

Edmond, born in Assumption
Parish in November 1816, married Clarisse Mélicère, called Mélicère, 17-year-old daughter of fellow
Acadian Joseph Savoie, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche
Interior Parish, in September 1837. Their daughters married into the
Augeron or Orgeron and Cantrelle families, and perhaps
into the Thompson family as well.

3

Youngest son Séverin, born in Assumption
Parish in June 1819, married Julienne, 18-year-old daughter of fellow
Acadian Gilbert Melançon, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior
Parish, in June 1839.

Joseph-Thadée, eldest son of
Joseph dit Le Cadet Landry and
Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc, born at Ascension in March 1780, married Anastasie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Dugas, at Ascension in July 1799.
They settled on Bayou Lafourche. Their daughter married into the
Henry family. Joseph Thadée died near Raceland, Lafourche
Parish, in October 1857; the priest who recorded the burial, and who did not
bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Joseph
Thadée died "at age 76 yrs."; he was 77.

1

Oldest son Joseph-Marcellin
or Marcellin-Joseph, born at Ascension in May 1800, married
Carmelite Rosalie or Rose, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Savoie, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1819. Their son
François was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1821,
Lucien in August 1826, Henry Omer, called Omer and
Homere,in July 1834, and Laurent Ferjus,
called Ferjus,in August 1836.
Their daughters married into the Dupré, Guidry, Hébert, and Henry
families.

1a

François may have married
French Creole Marie Basilise LeBoeuf. Their son
Joseph was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1841.

1b

Lucien may have married German
Creole Honorine Mathilde Hotard in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne
Parish in August 1852.

1c

Omer married Elma, Elina,
or Helina, daughter of French Creole Octave Bouvier, at the Raceland church,
Lafourche Parish, in May 1856; Elina's mother was a Theriot.
They lived near the boundary between Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.
Their son Edgard Amédée was born in February 1858, and
Théophile Nickles, probably Nicolas,in April 1858.

1d

Ferjus "from Terrebonne
Parish" married cousin Euzelie or Euselia, daughter of fellow Acadian
Marcellin Basile Henry of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church,
Terrebonne Parish, in May 1862; Euzelie's mother was a Landry.
Ferjus died by May 1865, when his widow remarried at Chacahoula to
another Landry. One wonders if Ferjus's death was
war-related and if his family line survivied.

2

Donat-Benjamin, called
Benjamin, born at
Ascension in February 1803, married cousin Marie Delphine,
18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Hippolyte Breaux, at the
Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1823; Marie's
mother, also, was a Dugas. Their son Joseph Aurelien,
called Aurelien,was
born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1826. Their daughters
married into the Bourgeois, Boutary, Chiasson, and
Waguespack families. Benjamin may have died near Paincourtville,
Assumption Parish, in October 1869; the priest who recorded the burial, and
who did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said
that Benjamin died at "age ca. 77 years"; Donat Benjamin would have been
"only" 66.

Aurelien married Marcelline,
daughter of French Creole Pierre Destival or Detreval, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1848; Marcelline's mother
was a Foret. Their son Pierre Joseph Onésime, called
Onésime and Onésippe,was born in Lafourche
Interior Parish in January 1849, and Pierre Oscar, called
Oscar, posthumouslynear Raceland in November 1854.
Aurelien died near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, in August 1854; the
priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any
parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Aurelien died "at age
28 yrs.," so this probably was him; "letters of tutorship" for his sons
Onésippe and Oscar were filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in May 1857.

3

Pierre, born at Ascension
in October 1805, married Mélicère, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian
Jean Baptiste Bourgeois, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche
Interior Parish, in June 1832. Their son Pierre, fils was born
in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1834, Joseph Ernest, called
Ernest, in March 1837,
Michel Théophile, called Théophile,in October 1841, and Ozémé,
perhaps also called Pierre,in October 1844.
Their daughter married into
the Babin family. A decree of tutorship for his three sons was
filed at the Thibodaux courthouse, Lafourche Parish, in March 1855; Pierre
would have been 50 years old that year.

Ernest married Félicie Marcelline,
called Marcelline, daughter of Anglo American Joseph Walker, at
the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in August 1860. Their son
Joseph Ernest, fils, called Ernest, fils, was born near
Raceland in July 1861. Ernest, père died in October
1862; he was only 25 years old; his daughter Marie Alice was born
posthumously the following January; a succession inventory record,
listing his two small children, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in
December 1865. Was Ernest's death war-related?

4

Youngest son Étienne Rosémond,
born in Ascension Parish in September 1808, may have died young, unless he
was the Rosémond Landry who married Marie Agnès Corvesier and
settled in Lafourche Interior Parish by the early 1850s.

Alain, eldest son of
Pierre-Abraham dit Pitre Landry and Marguerite Allain, born at Ascension in
October 1778, married Marguerite Eugènie, called Eugènie, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Aucoin,
at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1808. They
remained on the upper bayou. Their
daughter married into the Guidry family.

1

Older son Libois, born in Assumption
Parish in June 1809, died at age 1 1/2 in December 1810.

2

Younger son Gervais Esprit,
born in Ascension Parish in August 1827, ...

Pierre-Grégoire dit
Landry, also called Grégoire, youngest son of
Pierre-Abraham dit Pitre Landry and Marguerite Allain, born at Ascension in November 1782, married Marie Joséphine,
called Joséphine, daughter of French Creole Jacques Rousseau, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1811. They
remained on the upper bayou. Their
daughters married into the Gross and Landry families.
Grégoire died in Assumption Parish in November 1840; the Plattenville priest
who recorded his burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names
or even mention a wife, said that Pierre Grégoire Landry died at "age ca. 50
years," but he was 58. Five of his
six sons married. One of them settled on the western prairies, but the
others remained on the Lafourche.

1

Oldest son Terence Prudent,
called Prudent, born in Assumption Parish in April 1815, married
Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin LeBlanc, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1845. Their son
Catoire Prudent was born near Paincourtville in November 1846,
Pierre Justin, called Justin le jeune, was baptized at the Paincourtville church, age 2 months,
in May 1849,
Charles Édouard was born in April 1852, and Grégoire in November
1856.

Justin le jeune died in Assumption
Parish in August 1867. The Plattenville priest who recorded the
burial said that Justin died at "age 19 years," but he was only 18.
He probably did not marry.

2

Romain Dufoi, Dufossard,
or Defossat, born in Assumption Parish in February 1817, married Mare Émilie,
called Émilie, daughter of
fellow Acadian Joseph LeBlanc of Ascension Parish, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1837. They
settled near Paincourtville. Their
infant child, name and age unrecorded, perhaps a son, died in
December 1838. Their daughter married a Gautreaux cousin.
Did Duffosard father any sons who survived?

3

Emérante Gilbert, born in
Assumption Parish in January 1819, married Adélaïde, daughter of French
Canadian Valéry Roy, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in
May 1847. They remained on the western prairies.

4

Landry Godegrand, called
Godegrand, born in
Assumption Parish in September 1822, married first cousin Marie Julie Zulmée,
called Zulmée, daughter
of French Creole Adélard Rousseau, at the Paincourtville church,
Assumption Parish, in June 1850; they had to secure a dispensation for
second degree of consanguinity in order to marry. Their son Joseph
Charles was born near Paincourtville in November 1857, Augustin
Alcide in April 1859, and Jean Beauregard in June 1862.
Godegrand remarried to Alexandrine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph
Alexandre Ozelet, at the Paincourtville church in March 1869;
Godegrand was 46 years old at the time of the wedding.

5

Justin, born in Assumption
Parish in August 1826, married Marie Zulmée or Zulma, daughter of French Creole
Charles Triche, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in
March 1857. Their son Pierre Mirouvet was born near
Plattenville in May 1858, Charles Maldorfi in March 1860, Joseph Thomas Delphin,
called Thomas,near Paincourtville in December 1861 but died
at age 1 in December 1862, Optime was born in April 1863, a son, name
and age unrecorded, perhaps Optime, died near Plattenville in December 1863,
Adam
was born in March 1865, and Abel in August 1866.

6

Youngest son Adolphe, born in Assumption
Parish in December 1831, died at age 1 in December 1832.

Joseph François, also called
Joseph Richard, third son of
Édouard Landry and his first wife Marie Élise Landry, born in
Ascension Parish in April 1807, married cousin Marie Mélanie, called
Mélanie, daughter of Henri Landry,
at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1836.
They remained on the upper bayou. Their daughters married into the Guidry, Savoy,
and Theriot families.

1

Oldest son Charles Drosin,
called Drosin, born in
Assumption Parish in November 1838, married cousin Eveline or Evelina, daughter of
Lucien Landry, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in
June 1859; they had to secure a dispensation for third and fourth degrees of
consanguinity in order to marry. Their son Louis Édouard was
born near Paincourtville in June 1860.

2

Joseph Bienvenu, called
Bienvenu, born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in December 1845,
married cousin and fellow Acadian Élisabeth Ethelvina Babin of
Assumption Parish at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April
1869; they had to secure a dispensation for third and fourth degrees of
consanguinity in order to marry.

3

François Domingue, called
Dominque, born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in March 1848,
died at age 14 in July 1862. One wonders if his death was war-related?

4

Telesphore was born near
Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in December 1849.

5

Henri Léon, born near
Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in January 1856, died at age 3 1/2 in
June 1859.

6

Youngest son Casimir Désiré was born
near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in January 1861.

Joseph Sylvère, called Sylvère, son of Benjamin
Landry and his second wife Marie Céleste Landry, born in St.
James Parish in December 1815, married Rosalie or Rosaline, daughter of Jacob Rebre
of Germany, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1835.
They remained on the upper bayou near the boundary between Assumption and
Ascension parishes. Sylvère may have died in Assumption Parish in October
1848; the Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not
bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Silvère,
as he called him, died at "age 36 years"; Joseph Sylvère would have been only
32.

1

Oldest son Joseph Numa was
born in Assumption Parish in June 1836.

2

Landry Ernest was born in
Assumption Parish in January 1838.

3

His youngest son, name unrecorded, died in
Assumption Parish the day of his birth in February 1841.

Joseph Nicolas, fils,third and youngest son of Joseph Nicolas and Susanne Marie
Josèphe Calegan, born in Ascension Parish in January 1821, married
Marie Carmelite, daughter of Spanish Creole Manuel Suarez, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1840.

1

Oldest son Joseph Nicolas
III, born near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in January 1841, married
Joséphine, daughter of French Creole Jean Prevost, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1861; Joséphine's mother
was a Dupuis. Their son Joseph Oleus was born near
Plattenville in February 1862.

2

Joseph Manuel Adrien,
called Adrien, born
near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in June 1842, married Marie, daughter
of fellow Acadian Alexandre Hébert, at the Plattenville church in
January 1862. Their son Arthur Séverin was born near
Plattenville in February 1863, and Evariste Léonard in October 1870.

3

Joseph René, called René, born near
Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in August 1845, married Octavie, daughter
of fellow Acadian Isidore Guillot, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in January 1866. Their son Joseph Joachim
was born near Plattenville in March 1869.

4

Youngest son Joseph Symphorien Oscar,
was born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in August 1854.

~

Other LANDRYs in the
Lafourche/Terrebonne Valley

Area church and civil records make
it difficult to link many Landrys in the Bayou Lafourche valley with
known lines of the family there. The priests at Plattenville were
especially negligent in their recordkeeping. One suspects that some of
the Landrys who lived in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley during the
post-war period were Afro Creoles once owned by Acadian Landrys:

Joseph Landry married
fellow Acadian Marcellite Dugas and settled in Assumption Parish in
the 1810s.

Jean Landry died in Assumption
Parish "by drowning in Bayou" in October 1830. The Plattenville priest
who recorded his burial, and who did not bother to give his parents' names
or mention a wife, said that Jean died at "age ca. 40 yrs."

Éloi Landry married fellow
Acadian Mathilde Theriot and settled in Assumption Parish by the
early 1830s. Mathilde died before October 1833, when she was listed as deceased in a daughter's burial record.

Eugène Landry died in
Assumption Parish in April 1832. The Plattenville priest who recorded
his burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Eugène was "ca. 39 yrs." old when he died .

Joseph dit Dio Vincent
Landry, husband of Renée Trahan, died in Assumption Parish in
January 1833. The priest who recorded his burial, and who did not
bother to give any parents' names, said that Joseph
dit Dio Vincent was 51 years old when he died.

Joseph Narcisse Landry
married Léonore Landry probably in Assumption Parish in the 1820s or
early 1830s.

Célestine Landry married
Jean Baptiste Augeron at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior
Parish, in April 1843. The priest who recorded the marriage did not
bother to give the couple's parents' names.

Théophile Landry married
fellow Acadian Célestine Hébert. Their son Élisée Désiré
was born near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in October 1841 but died at
age 7 1/2 (the Plattenville priest said "age 2 years") in April 1849, Joseph Thomas
was born in October 1855, Forester Bienvenu in October 1858,
Jean Émile in January 1862, and Ernest Eugène in June 1865. Their daughter married into the
Blanchard family.

Valérie Landry married
cousin Hortense Landry. Their son Eulise, perhaps
Ulysse, was born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in September
1844.

Germain Josèphe[sic]
Landry died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in September 1844.
He was only 2 1/2 years old. The priest who recorded the boy's burial
did not bother to give the parents' names.

Joseph Gesner Landry died
near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in October 1844. He was only 8
1/2 years old. The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not bother
to give the parents' names.

Sylvère, also called Sylvain, Landry married
fellow Acadian Euphémie Melançon and settled near Plattenville,
Assumption Parish, by the mid-1840s. Was he the Silvère Landry
who died near Plattenville, age 36, in October 1848?

Jean Landry died in
Assumption Parish in September 1844. The Plattenville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
even mention a wife, said that Jean died at "age 77 years." Who was
he?

Désiré, son of Michel Landry,
died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, age 2, in December 1847.
The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the mother's name.

Elveigne Landry died near
Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in July 1848. The priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, said that
Elveigne died at "age 18 years." One wonders if the young man married.

Louis, son of Glenkak Squire
and Heline Landry, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1850,
age 12. For some reason, the Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial
called Louis a Landry.

Auguste Landry married
Scholastique Boudreaux in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior
Parish in February 1852. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage
did not give the couple's parents' names.

Joseph, son of Pierre Landry,
died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in August 1852, only 6 days
after his birth. The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not
bother to give the mother's name.

Noise, probably Moïse, Landry
married _____. Their son Alcide Ferjus was born in
Terrebonne Parish in June 1853.

Pierre Landry died near
Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in October 1853. The priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
mention a wife, said that Pierre died at "age 28 years." Did he marry?

Jean Baptiste Landry,
fils
married Marie Octavie Daunois or Daunoy and settled near Labadieville,
Assumption Parish, by the mid-1850s. They were still living there in
the early 1860s.

Zéphirin, son of Ursin Landry,
died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, at age 8 months in January
1855. The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not bother to give
the mother's name, so one wonders which Ursin Landry was the father.

Elvire Landry married
French Creole Ernest Cantrelle in a civil ceremony in Lafourche
Parish in March 1855. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did
not give the couple's parents' names.

Ozelia Landry married
François Lee in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1855.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's
parents' names.

Homere, son of Ursin Landry,
died near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in July 1855. The priest
who recorded the burial, and who did not give the mother's name, said that
Homere died at "age ca. 13 years."

Achille, son of Ives Landry,
died near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in September 1855. The
priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give the boy's
mother's name, said that Achille died at "age 3 years."

Adrien Landry died near
Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in September 1855. The priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, said
that Adrien died at "age 14 months."

Théodule Landry died near
Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in April 1857. The priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
mention a wife, said that Théodule died at "age ca. 23 years."

Louis Landry died near
Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1858. The priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, says
that Louis died "at age 4 yrs."

Zéolide Landry married
Justilien Augeron in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in October
1860. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names.

Clairville Landry of
Assumption Parish married fellow Acadian Laurenza Babin, also of
Assumption Parish, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in
September 1861. The priest who recorded the marriage did not
bother to give the couple's parents' names. They settled probably on
the upper bayou near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes
before moving to lower Bayou Teche.
Their son Laurent Odrosie was born near Paincourtville, Assumption
Parish, in August 1862, and Joseph Émile near Lydia, then in St.
Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in December 1864.

Joseph Landry died in
Assumption Parish in November 1865. The Plattenville priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
even mention a wife, said that Joseph died at "age 48 years."

Louis Landry married
Séverine Cuvillier. Their son Joseph Louis was born near
Lockport, Lafourche Parish, in December 1865.

Célestin, son of Jean Baptiste
Landry and Françoise Arabie, married Émelie Victorine, daughter
of German Creole Jacques Célestin Matherne, in a civil ceremony in
Lafourche Parish in May 1867.

Narcysse, probably Narcisse,
Landry married Marthe Myrs, perhaps Mire. Their son
Joseph Treville was born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in
November 1867.

Eliza Landry gave birth to
son Pierre MacMahon near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in November
1867. The priest who recorded the boy's baptism the following January
did not give the father's name nor the mother's parents' names.

Joseph G. Landry married
Louis Theriot. Their son Camille Gustave was born near
Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in July 1868 but died the following
September.

Célestin Landry married
fellow Acadian Angelina, also called Engelina, Trahan in a civil
ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1869. The parish clerk who
recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Their
son Adam Aubin was born in Terrebonne Parish in December 1870.

Jean Baptiste Landry
married Marguerite Michel. Their son Octave was born
near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in January 1869.

Celena, perhaps Celina, Landry
married Peter Clark in a civil ceremony in Lafourche
Parish in April 1869. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did
not give the couple's parents' names.

Vigilia, daughter of Manuel
Landry and Marie Estelle, married Émilien, son of fellow Acadian
Jean Baptiste Robichaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in
June 1869.

NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in
LOUISIANA

At least one non-Acadian Landry
appears in Louisiana church records during the colonial period.
She came to the colony from Switzerland
decades before her Acadian namesakes arrived:

Anne-Marie, daughter of Jacob
Landry of Basel, Switzerland, married Henry, son of Pierre Lebel
of Paris, at New Orleans in October 1728.

~

More non-Acadian Landrys,
some of whom would have been called Foreign French by native Louisianians,
immigrated from France or the Caribbean Basin during the antebellum period.
Those who remained in Louisiana probably
settled at New Orleans:

Baptiste Landry, a
35-year-old carpenter and native of France, reached New Orleans aboard the
ship Baltic out of Aux Cayes, Haiti, in May 1820. With him was
40-year-old Marie Dugas Landry, probably his wife. She also was
a native of France. One wonders if Baptiste and Marie were descendants
of Acadians who had remained in France.

Louis Landry, a 40-year-old
farmer from France, reached New Orleans aboard the ship Middlesex out
of Le Havre, France, in December 1847. With him was wife Louise, age
37, also a native of France, and son Gastave, age 5.

.

During the antebellum period, three non-Acadian Landrys--one
from Canada, another from France, and a Protestant from northwestern
Switzerland--settled on the river at Pointe Coupée and on the western
prairies. Their numbers were miniscule compared to that of their
Acadian namesakes, but most of their lines survived, especially the Swiss
immigrants on the prairies:

Simon LANDRY
(?-)

Simon, fils, son of Simon
Landry and Marie Bélanger of Montréal, Canada, married Lucile,
daughter of French Creole Manuel Labbé, at Pointe Coupee in 1805.
Did their family line survive?

Descendants of
Alexandre-Charles LANDRY (?-)

Alexandre-Charles, son of
Étienne-Nicolas Landry and Marie-Adélaïde Lepeu of Paris,
France, married Louise Antoinette, daughter of French Creole Jean Baptiste
Peytavin of Opelousas and Bayou Teche, at the St. Martinville church,
St. Martin Parish, in April 1811.

Alexandre Louis, born in
St. Martin Parish in July 1814, married Marie Louise Henriette, called
Henriette, daughter of Charles
Lastrapes, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June
1842. Their son Alexandre Charles le jeune, perhaps called
Charles, was born in St.
Martin Parish in August 1843.

Alexandre Charles le jeune
married Marie Léontine, perhaps also called Léonie Judice,
in St. Martin Parish in the 1860s. Philippe Félix, perhaps
their son,was born in St. Martin Parish in June 1866. The
family moved to New Orleans by the mid-1870s.

Descendants of
Jean-Jacques-Henri LANDRY (?-)

Jean Jacques Henri Landry
of Villiers, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, married Susanne Catherine,
called Catherine, Frasse probably in Switzerland. Like most
residents of their canton, they were Protestants. They came to Louisiana
during the antebellum period and settled in St. Martin Parish, where their
two sons married sisters from Neuchâtel who also were Protestants. The
sons settled in St. Martin and Lafayette parishes in the midst of their
Acadian namesakes.

1

Older son Charles Henri, born at Villiers, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, married Marie-Anne, daughter of David François
Sandoz of Dombresson, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and sister of
his brother Henri's wife, "at the parish rectory," St. Martinville, in
February 1822; Marie-Anne also was a Protestant. Their son Charles
Émile was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1824, Antoine,
called Anthony,in December 1837, and Arthur Germain in March 1841. Their
daughters married into the Campbell and Perry families. Charles
Henri's succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St.
Martin Parish, in July 1847.

1a

Charles Émile may have married
Acadian Sismène Broussard by the early 1850s and settled in St.
Martin Parish. He married--or remarried to--Mathilde, daughter of
Spanish Creole Edmond Castille, at the St. Martinville church,
St. Martin Parish, in May 1863.

1b

Anthony married Marie Adeline,
called Adeline, daughter of Anglo American
Robert Perry, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in June
1860; Anthony's sister Emilia Arsène married Adeline's brother Auguste C., a Protestant.
Anthony and Adeline's son Arthur Perry was born in St. Martin
Parish in October 1862, and Stanislas near Abbeville, Vermilion
Parish, in October 1867. Anthony died near Abbeville in June 1870;
the priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any
parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Anthony died "at age 30
yrs.," but he was 32.

2

Younger son Jean Jacques Henri, fils,
called Henri, born at Villiers,
Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, married Susanne Célestine, called
Célestine, daughter of Jean Henri Sandoz
of Dombresson, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and sister of his brother
Charles Henri's wife, at the bride's home in St.
Martinville in November 1831; Susanne-Célestine was a Protestant.
Their son Louis Joseph was baptized at the Vermilionville church,
Lafayette Parish, age 10 1/2 months, in October 1836. They also had
sons named Aimé Désiré, called Désiré, and Henri or
Henry. Their daughters
married into the Bouges or Bourges and Whittington
families.

2a

Aimé Désiré married Sarah
Anne, daughter of Anglo American James Whittington, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1859; Aimé Désiré's sister
Justine married Sarah's brother William. Aimé Désiré and Sarah Anne's
son Louis Robert was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1860, Aimé Désiré, fils in July 1862,
and Félix Robin in August 1868.

2b

Henri married Félicité,
daughter of Jean Billaud, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, in July 1865. Their son Félix Henri was born in
Lafayette Parish in September 1868, and Jules Gaston in August
1870.

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As a result of the
family's participation in the South's peculiar institution, some South
Louisiana Landrys were Afro Creoles who had been owned, and in some
cases freed, by members of the family:

Clarisse, a femme de couleur
libre, or free woman of color, daughter of Aimie Landry, married
Adolphe, an homme de couleur libre, or free man of color,son
of Armeide Wils, probably Wiltz, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in
January 1848.

Francissi, also called Pierre, Landry married
Maria Marceline, called Marceline, Becna or Becnel. They
likely were free persons of color. Their son Augustum Léo was born
near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in February 1844. Their daughter
Mélanie, called a free woman of color (the recording priest called her
father Pierre), married Joseph, son of Victor Coulon and a free man
of color, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in March 1860.

Antoine Landry was born "at
Joseph Oubre's" near Vacherie, St. James Parish, in October 1858.
The priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the parents' names,
but the names of Antoine's godparents shed light on the boy's social/racial
status. His godfather was Isadore "at A. Rome's", and his
godmother was Marie "at Widow Kleiber's." His godparents, in
other words, were slaves, so Antoine likely was a slave as well, his mother
probably owned by Joseph Oubre.

Fanchanette Landry, "affranchi[e]
de [freed woman of] Mr. Dorcile Landry" and daughter of Victoire
____, married Cyrille James, "affranchi de [freedman
of] Mr. Charles Landry" and son of Marie ____, at the St.
Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1866.

Auguste Landry, "af[f]ranchi
de [freedman of] Mr. Édouard Simon," married Charlotte Simon,
"affranchie de [freed woman of] Mr. Édouard Simon," at the St. Martinville
church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1866; the marriage also was registered
civilly. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names, but he did note that the church marriage recognized
seven of their children, two sons and five daughters, born between January
1837 and February 1849. Auguste died in St. Martin Parish the day
after the church wedding; the St. Martinville priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a
wife, said that August died "at age 55 yrs."; his succession record, calling
him
"alias Boisette," free man of color, was filed at the St. Martinville
courthouse the day of his death.

Mozella Nozalie Landry, "affranchi[e]
de Placide Isaac," married Valsin Alexandre, "affranchi
de Jean Thibodeaux," at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish,
in February 1867. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give
the couple's parents' names.

Marie Landry, freedwoman,
married Joseph Boudreaux, freedman, at the Youngsville church,
Lafayette Parish, in June 1868. The priest who recorded the marriage
did not give the couple's parents' names.

.

Descendants of Joseph LANDRY
(?-)

Joseph Landry, probably a
free man of color, married
Aimée Delahoussaye, a free woman of color, in St. Martin Parish.

1

Joseph, fils,
called Jo, perhaps the unnamed son of Joseph and Aimée who was born in St. Martin
Parish in April 1840, married cousin Élizabeth Semiramis, daughter
of Édouard Delahoussaye, homme de couleur libre, or free man
of color,at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April
1861. Joseph, fils remarried to Adèle, daughter of Louis
Frilot, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1869, and
sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in July.

2

Charles, described by the
recording priest as a
couleur libre, married Léonide, daughter of Éloise Judice, also
a couleur libre,at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin
Parish, in June 1865; the recording priest called Charles a son of Aimée
Delahoussaye but did not give his father's name; it probably was
Joseph, père.

CONCLUSION

Landrys (two separate families, the
progenitors cousins) were
among the first families of Acadia, no Acadian family came earlier to Louisiana,
and no other Acadian family sent more individuals to the colony. Between February 1764, when the first Acadian
exiles reached New Orleans,
through 1785, when hundreds more arrived from France, over 200 Landrys--130
of them from Maryland alone--called Louisiana their new home. (Nearly
all of them were descendants of René le jeune of Acadia; only two of
them, immigrant brothers from France, can be traced back to the older
cousin, Rene l'aîné.) Most of these Acadian Landrys settled on the Mississippi River along what was called the Acadian
Coast, but their presence there was not substantial at first. Not
until the migrations from Maryland in 1766, 1767, and 1768 did the family
become a significant one on the river. During
the late colonial period, centers of family settlement arose also on the western prairies and along Bayou Lafourche, but most Landrys
remained on the river, in St. James, Ascension, Iberville, and West Baton Rouge parishes. Most,
not all, of the
1785 arrivals favored the Bayou Lafourche valley over the crowded
river settlements; not until later in the colonial period, however, when Maryland
exiles or their children moved from the river to Bayou Lafourche, did this
third center of family settlement become substantial.

Non-Acadian Landrys
from Canada, France, and Switzerland appeared in St. Martin Parish in the
early 1800s, but they were vastly outnumbered by their Acadian namesakes.
The family line from Switzerland, which arose in St. Martin Parish and
spread western into nearby Lafayette, was
especially vigorous. Afro-Creole Landrys also lived in South
Louisiana during the antebellum and immediate post-war periods.

As they had occupied nearly every significant
settlement in old Acadia, Landrys settled in every Acadian community
of South Louisiana. The family's settlement patterns in the late
colonial and early antebellum periods resemble a series of waves spreading
out from the family's substantial base on the Acadian Coast. The first wave, no more than a ripple, moved out to the western
prairies beginning in the early 1770s, followed by successive waves across
the Atchafalaya Basin
into the early
antebellum period. Most of the western Landrys settled in what
became St. Martin, Lafayette, St. Mary, and Vermilion parishes, but at least
one family set down roots on the Opelousas prairie south of the present city.
Meanwhile, beginning in the late 1780s, several waves of Landrys
moved from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, followed by ripples of
movement deeper into the Lafourche and Terrebonne country during the early 1800s;
at least two Landrys settled on the Gulf at Chenière Camanada, near
Grand Isle, at the southern edge of Jefferson Parish; others moved from the upper bayou to the shores of Lake Verret,
where some of their descendants hunted alligators. During the early antebellum period, in a
reversal of the usual Acadian migration pattern, a few Landry
families moved from upper Bayou Lafourche back to the river. Also in a
reversal of the usual migration pattern, at least one Landry moved
from the prairies to the river during the late antebellum period. Following
a more typical pattern of movement, Landrys from the Lafourche valley
moved to the lower Atchafalaya, to the western prairies, and especially
to lower Bayou Teche during the late antebellum and immediate post-war
periods. Evidently this movement was the beginning of a virtual family
exodus. A recent study of Louisiana families with French and Spanish
roots notes: "Today [1986] ... Landry families in
Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes comprise but a small part of the clan in
Louisiana." Perhaps as part of that exodus, Landrys from
the Lafourche valley were moving to the Vacherie area of St. James
Parish during the immediate post-war period. The Landrys
nevertheless maintained a solid presence on the upper bayou in Assumption
Parish.

The family produced a number of wealthy
indigo and sugar planters,
a district commandant, and a lieutenant governor, most of them from families
in river parishes. Joseph
dit Bellehomme Landry
served as commandant of Ascension from 1799-1803 and was elected to the
first state senate in 1812. His son Trasimond served as lieutenant
governor of Louisiana during the late 1840s. ...

According to a recent study of Louisiana
families with French and Spanish roots, "Among the surnames of French origin
in Louisiana that of Landry
is second only to Hébert." Interestingly, dozens more Landrys than
Héberts emigrated to Louisiana, and Landry marriages outnumbered
Hébert marriages by a substantial margin during the first century of
Acadian presence in South Louisiana. ...

Alligator hunter Troy Landry of the History
Channel's popular series "Swamp People," is a direct descendant of one of
many Landrys who came to Louisiana from Maryland. ...

The family's name also is spelled Lendry,
Landri, Landris, L'audry in Louisiana. A Landry family from
Canada who settled in western Virginia spell their surname Londeree.

For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early
1800s,
see Appendix.

The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian
immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective
on the refugee's place in family and community.

born c1740; exiled to MD 1755, age 15; married Joseph
HÉBERT,
probably MD; arrived LA 1767, age 27; in
report on Acadians who settled at St.-Gabriel, 1767, called Ana, age 27, with husband & 1 daughter;
died [buried] St.-Gabriel 29 Sep 1802, age 62, a widow

born c1766; called Calixte; son of Vincent LANDRY & Susanne
GODIN; arrived LA 1766 or 1767, an infant; in report on Acadians in New Orleans, July 1767, called Charles-Caliste,
with parents; in Cabanocé census, 1769, right [west] bank,
called Charles-Caliste, age 3, with parents, sister,
& orphan Brigitte TRAHOU [TRAHAN]; in Ascension census, 1770, right
[west] bank, called Charles-Caliste, age 4, with parents, sister, & orphan Bergitte TRAHAN; in
Ascension census, 1777, right [west] bank, called Caliste, age 10, with
parents, siblings, & aunt Wife of SIRAXE; moved to Lafourche valley;
in Valenzuéla census, 1795,
called Celesie, age 29, with widowed father & siblings; in Valenzuéla
census, 1797, called Calice, age 25[sic], with widowed father &
siblings; in Valenzuéla census, 1798, called Calis, age 30[sic],
with widowed father; never married; died [buried] Assumption 31 Oct
1798, age 32

born c1767, MD or St.-Gabriel; daughter of François-Sébastien LANDRY
& his
first wife Marguerite LEBLANC; sister of Rose; arrived LA 1767, either in
utero or as an infant; in report on Acadians who
settled at St.-Gabriel, 1767, called Isabel, age indecipherable, with
parents, sister, & 3 BLANCHER orphans; in St.-Gabriel census, 1777,
right bank ascending, unnamed, age 6[sic], with parents & sister;
married, age 23, Jean-Baptiste, son of Prosper
GIROIR & Marie DUGAS of St.-Coulon, Dola, France, 8 Feb 1790,
Ascension, now Donaldsonville; moved to Lafourche valley; in Valenzuéla census, 1791, left bank, called Isabelle LANDRI, age 21[sic],
with husband & no children; in Valenzuéla census, 1795, called Isabel, age 26[sic],
with husband & 4 daughters; in Valenzuéla census, 1797, called Isabel, age 27[sic],
with husband & 4 daughters; in Valenzuéla census, 1798, age 28[sic], with
husband, 1 son, & 3 daughters; died [buried] Assumption Parish 24 Mar
1823, age 54[sic], a widow

born c1752, probably Pigiguit; daughter of Firmin LANDRY & his
first wife Élisabeth-Françoise THIBODEAUX; sister of Joseph, Marie-Madeleine, & Saturin; exiled to MD 1755, age 3; in report on Acadians at Oxford, MD,
Jul 1763, called Eleine, with parents & siblings; arrived LA 1766, age
13; moved to Attakapas
District; married, age 19, Amand,
son of Joseph BROUSSARDdit Beausoleil & Agnès THIBODEAUX of
Petitcoudiac, 15 Jul 1771, Attakapas; in Atakapas census, 1771, called Isabelle, age 19, in household of brother-in-law
François BROUSSARD with husband; died before Oct 1774, when her husband
was listed in the Attakapas census as a widower

born 13 Nov 1760, probably GA; son of Olivier LANDRY &
Cécile POIRIER;
brother of Joseph & Marie; moved to Charleston, SC, 1763, age 3; among first Acadians to reach LA,
from GA via Mobile, Feb 1764, age 4;
baptized 26 Feb 1764, New Orleans, soon after his family reached LA, one of first recorded Acadian baptisms in LA; in
Cabanocé
census, 1766, unnamed, probably the boy in the household of Ollivie LANDRY

born c1710; son of Germain LANDRY & Marie
MELANÇON;
married,
age 21, Anne dite Nanette,
daughter of Jean BABIN & Marguerite BOUDREAUX, c1731; exiled to MD
1755, age 45; in report on Acadians at Oxford,
MD, Jul 1763, called Jean, with no wife, sons Hyacinthe & Jean, &
daughters Margte., Anne, Magdne, & Rose; arrived LA 1767, age 57, a
widower; in report on Acadians who settled at St.-Gabriel, 1767, called Juan Baptista LANDRI, widower, age 50[sic], head of family number 33, assigned farm
number 38, with sons Juan age 16, daughters Margarita age 30, Magdalena
age 20, Maria Rosa age 18, & Maria[-Perpétué] age 13; died before Feb 1777,
when he was listed as deceased in daughter Marie-Perpétué's marriage
record

born & baptized 26 Jul 1770, Trés-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg, France; called Frédéric; son of
Germain LANDRY & Cécile LA GARENNE; grandson of François LANDRY; brother of
Bonne-Marie-Adélaïde; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy
from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; sailed to LA on L'Amitié,
age 15, traveled with grandfather; in Valenzuéla census,
1791, right bank, called Frédéric, age 19, with grandfather
Francois LANDRI; in Valenzuéla census, 1795, called Frederico, age 25,
with family of Simon SIMONAUX; in Valenzuéla census, 1797, called
Frédéric, age 26, listed singly; in Valenzuéla census, 1798, called
Frédéric, age 27, listed singly

born c1743; son of Pierre LANDRY & Marie BABIN; brother of Ursule; exiled to MD
1755, age 12; in report of Acadians at Oxford, MD, Jul 1763, with sister
Ursule, brother-in-law Jean LANDRY, & 3 others; arrived LA 1767, age 24; in report on
Acadians who settled at St.-Gabriel, 1767, called Joseph LANDRI orphan,
age 24, with family of brother-in-law Jean LANDRY & 2 other orphans;
married (1)Marguerite LEBLANC,
late 1760 or early 1770s, probably St.-Gabriel?; married
(2)Madeleine BABIN?

born c1766, MD; daughter of Basile LANDRY &
his first wife Brigitte
BOUDREAUX; sister of Susanne-Marie; arrived LA 1768, age 2; in report on Acadians who settled at St.-Luìs
de Natchez, 1768, called Magdalena, age 2, with parents & sister; not
in Attakapas census of 1777 with the rest of her family, so she may have died
young

born c1766, probably MD; son of Mathurin LANDRY & his
first wife Marie
BABIN;
brother of Marie-Ludivine; arrived LA 1768, age 2; in report on Acadians who settled at St.-Luìs de
Natchez, 1768, called Marcelo, age 2, with parents, sister, & orphan
Margarita BRO; not in Cabanocé census of 1769 & Ascension
censuses of 1770 & 1777 with the rest of his family, so he probably died
young

born Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit; married
(1)Joseph, son of
Alexandre BOURGdit
Bellehumeur, notary, & Marguerite MELANÇON of Grand-Pré, c1744;
exiled to PA 1755;
arrived LA 1765; married
(2)François, son of
Paul SAVOIE & Judith MICHEL of Chepoudy, & widower of Anne AUCOIN, 22
Jul 1765, New Orleans, one of the
earliest Acadian marriages in LA; died by Oct 1766, when her husband
remarried at Cabanocé

born c1745; exiled to MD 1755, age 10; married Amand, son of François
HÉBERT
& Marie-Josèphe MELANÇON of Grand-Pré, probably MD; arrived LA 1767,
age 22; in report
on Acadians who settled at St.-Gabriel, 1767, called Maria, age 22, with
husband & no children; died by Mar
1777, when her husband was listed in the St.-Gabriel census as a widower

born c1762, probably MD; called Ludivine; daughter of Mathurin LANDRY &
his first wife Marie
BABIN; sister of Marcel; in report of Acadians at Port Tobacco, MD, in
July 1763, called Ludivine, with parents; arrived LA 1768, age 6; in report on Acadians who settled at St.-Luìs de
Natchez, 1768, called Maria, age 6, with parents, brother, & orphan
Margarita BRO; moved to Cabanocé; married, age 16, Simon-Joseph,
son of Antoine DUPUY & Marguerite BOUDREAUX of Manchac, 5 Oct 1778,
Ascension, now Donaldsonville

born c1755, Pigiguit or MD; son of Augustin LANDRY & his
second wife Marie-Madeleine BABIN of Pigiguit;
brother of Joseph-Ignace, Joseph-Marie, Madeleine, Marguerite, &
Marie; exiled to MD 1755, either in utero or as an infant; in
report on Acadians at Upper Marlborough, MD, Jul 1763, with his parents &
siblings; arrived LA 1767, age 12; in report on Acadians who settled at St.-Gabriel, 1767, age 12,
with parents & siblings; married, age 24, (1)Perpétué, daughter of
Antoine BREAUX & Marguerite LANDRY, 30 May 1779, Ascension, now
Donaldsonville; one of only 2 militiamen wounded in Gov. GÁLVEZ's Sep
1779 assault against the British at Fort Bute & Baton Rouge?; married, age 45, (2)Marie-Apolline,
called Apolline, daughter of Amand
HÉBERT & his first wife Marie-Claire LANDRY, 10 Feb 1800, St.-Gabriel;
settled at Plaquemine; died [buried] probably Plaquemine, Iberville
Parish, 9 Jan 1808, age 53

born c1732, Minas; exiled to VA 1755, age 23; deported
to England 1756, age 24; married, age 29, Marguerite, daughter of
Pierre
BABIN
and _____ of Minas, 1761, England;
repatriated to France aboard La Dorothée, arrived St.-Malo, France,
23 May 1763, age 31; at St.-Servan, France, 1763-72;
sailed to LA on La Ville d'Archangel, age 53[sic], no occupation
listed, probably a widower, head of family

born c1764, probably MD; daughter of François-Sébastien LANDRY & his first wife Marguerite LEBLANC;
sister of Isabelle; arrived LA 1767, age 3; in report of Acadians who settled at St.-Gabriel,
1767, called Rosa, age 2 1/2, with parents, sister, & 3 BLANCHER
orphans; in St. Gabriel census, 1777, right bank ascending, unnamed, age
10[sic], with parents & sister; probably died young

born c1755, Pigiguit or MD; son of Firmin LANDRY & his first
wife Élisabeth-Françoise
THIBODEAUX; brother of Hélène, Joseph, & Marie-Madeleine; exiled to
MD 1755, either in utero or as an infant; in report on
Acadians at Oxford, MD, Jul 1763, called Saturin, with parents &
siblings; arrived LA 1766, age 11; moved to Attakapas District; in Attakapas census, 1771, called Saturnin, age 16, with
father, stepmother, & siblings; in Attakapas census, 1774, unnamed,
with father, stepmother, & siblings; in Attakapas census, 1777, called Scaturnin, age 22, with father, stepmother, & siblings; in Attakapas
census, 1781, unnamed, with parents & others; never married?

born 2 Nov 1765, Crehan, France, baptized same
day, Pleurtuit; son of Prosper LANDRY & his third wife Élisabeth PITRE; brother of Jean-Pierre;
at Pleurtuit, Pleurtuit, France, 1765-72; carpenter; on list of Acadians at Nantes,
France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & brother; sailed
to LA on La Bergère, age 19; in Valenzuéla census, 1788, left
bank, called Simon-Joseph, age 22, with parents; in Valenzuéla
census, 1791, left bank, called Simon, age 25, with parents; married,
age 29, Marie-Luce,
daughter of Marin BOURG & Marie-Osite DAIGLE of St.-Malo, France, 5 Jul
1795, Assumption, now Plattenville; in Valenzuéla census, 1795, called
Simon, age 30, with wife Maria age 31, & no children, next to his
father; in Valenzuéla census, 1797, called Simon, age 31, with wife
Marie age 32, & son Simon age 1, 0 slaves, next to his father; in
Valenzuéla census, 1798, age 32, with wife Marie age 34, & daughter
Anne age 1, 6/40 arpents, 0 slaves, next to brother Jean-Pierre; died
[buried] Assumption Parish 28 Dec 1815, age 50, a widower

born c1756, probably MD; called Marie; daughter of Basile
LANDRY & his first wife Brigitte BOUDREAUX; sister of Madeleine; arrived LA
1768, age 12; in report on Acadians who settled at St.-Luìs de Natchez,
1768, called Maria, age 12, with parents & an orphan; moved to
Ascension; married, age 18, Louis
ROGERdit Brisbois, 24 Oct 1774, Ascension, now Donaldsonville;
moved to Attakapas District; in Attakapas census, 1777, called Marie, age 21, with husband
Louis ROGÉ age 30, who was head of family number 50, daughters Marguerite
[ROGÉ] age 2 & Marrine [ROGÉ] age 1, 0 slaves, 7 cattle, 2 horses,
12 hogs, 0 sheep;
in Attakapas census, 1785, unnamed, with husband & 4 others, 0 slaves;
died probably Attakapas by Feb 1804, when her husband was described in his burial record as a
widower

born
c1727, probably Minas; son of Joseph LANDRY & his first wife Marguerite
FOREST; married, age 38, Susanne, daughter of Pierre-Joseph
GODINdit Châtillon dit Préville & Marie-Josèphe BOURG of Minas,
& his step-sister, 13 Oct 1765, Oxford?, MD; arrived LA 1766, age 39; in report on Acadians in New Orleans,
Jul 1767,
with wife Suzanne & son Charles-Caliste; in Cabanocé census, 1769, right [west] bank,
occupying lot number 82, age 42, with wife Suzanne GODON age 32, son
Charles-Caliste age 3, daughter Félicité age 9 mos., & orphan Brigitte
TRAHOU [TRAHAN, whose mother was a LANDRY] age 12; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, age
44, head of family number 47, with wife Suzanne GAUDON age 32, son
Charles-Caliste age 4, daughter Félicité age 2, orphan Bergitte TRAHAN age
13, & 3 arpents; in Ascension census, 1777, right [west] bank, age 50,
head of family number 42, "singer of the church," with wife
Suzanne GODON age 40, sons Caliste age 10, Grégoire age 4, daughters
Félicitez age 7, Magdelaine age 6, Marie-Magdelaine age 4, Marie age 3,
Margueritte age 2, sister-in-law Wife of SIRAXE age 27 (who had 0 arpents,
4 slaves, & 4 cattle), 3 arpents, 0 slaves, 14 cattle, 1 horse, 0
sheep, 10 hogs, 1 arm; moved to Lafourche valley; in Valenzuéla census, 1795, called Vicente, age 69,
with no wife, sons Grégorio age 23, Josef age 17, Celesie [Charles-Caliste]
age 29, daughters Maria age 22, Margarita age 20, & Victoria age 13; in
Valenzuéla census, 1797, age 70, with no wife, sons Calice age 25,
Grégoire age 24, Joseph age 18, daughters Céleste age 30, & Marie age
22, 1 slave; in Valenzuéla census, 1798, age 72, with no wife, son Calis age 30, 7/50 arpents, 0
slaves, next to son Grégoire; died [buried] Assumption 28 Mar 1798, age
74[sic], a widower

NOTES

01.Wall of Names,
19, calls him Abraham LANDRY; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2521, calls him
Abraham LANDRY, says he was born in 1712, gives his parents' names, says
they were "de Pisiguit," says he married twice, first to Élizabeth,
daughter of Charles LEBLANC & Marie GAUTEROT on 30 Jun 1732 at Grand-Pré, &
then to Marguerite LEBLANC but does not give a date or place of marriage nor
her parents' names, says he occupied lot number 59 on the west side of the
Mississippi in 1759[sic] at St.-Jacques with 3 children, Marguerite,
Madeleine, & Joseph, & lists his children as, by his first wife, Mathurin,
born in 1737, Joseph in 1740, Étienne in 1742, Simon in 1747, Natalie in
1748, Anastasie in 1749, Marie in 1750, Marguerite in 1751, Pierre in 1752,
& by his second wife, Élizabeth in c1753, ,Madeleine in c1755, & Joseph
dit le cadet in 1757; White, DGFA-1,
933, calls him Abraham (dit Petit Abram) [LANDRY], gives his parents'
names, says he was born in c1712, details his 3 marriages, including his
wives' parents' names & his third wife's first husband's name, says he was
at Oxford, MD, in 1763, at Cabahannocer [St.-Jacques] in 1769, age 59, at
Ascension in 1770, age 56(sic), at Ascension in 1777, age 65, & was
buried at Ascension on 20 Aug 1786; BRDR, 2:415 (ASC-1, 197c), his
death/burial record, calls him Abraham LANDRY, but does not give his
parents' names, mention a wife, or give his age at the time of his death. See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies,
157; Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 175.

02.Wall of Names,
19, calls him Alexandre LANDRY; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2524, says he was born
in c1760; BRDR, 2:369, 416 (SGA-14, 2, #3), his marriage record,
calls him Alexandro LANDRI, says his wife was "of Morlais," gives his & her
parents' names, says his parents were "of Acadia & France," but gives no
witnesses to his marriage; BRDR, 4:310 (SGA-8, 109), his death/burial
record, calls him Alexandre LANDRY, "age 70 yrs.," but does not give his
parents' names or mention a wife. See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians,
435.

BRDR, 4:310 (SGA-8, 109), the burial record of
"Alexandre Madam" LANDRY, dated 7 Nov 1822, may be that of Alexandre's wife
Modeste HÉBERT. If so, she died only a week before he did.

03.Wall of Names,
38 (pl. 10L), calls him Aimable LANDRY, & lists him with 3 siblings,
with the notation: suplement
a la liste des Acadiens embarques dans le navire Le St. Remy pour la Nouvelle
Orleans [additional list of Acadians embarked on the ship Le St.-Rémi
bound for New Orleans]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 271, his
birth/baptismal record, calls him Aimable-Étienne LANDRY, gives his
parents' names, & says he was the godson of Joseph LANDRY & Marie
D'ENTREMONT; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 65-66, Family No.
130, calls him Amable-Étienne [LANDRY], gives his parents' names, &
details his family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 107, Family
No. 198, calls him Amable-Étienne [LANDRY], gives his parents' names, &
details his family's participation in the Poitou settlement in Poitou of the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian
Families in Exile 1785, 60-61, calls him Aimable LANDRY, graveur,
age 19, on the embarkation list, & Aimable LANDRY, engraver, age 19, on
the complete listing, says he was in the 6th Family on Supplément à la
liste des Acadiens embarqués dans le navire Le Saint-Rémi pour la nouvelle-orleans
[Additional list of Acadians embarked on the ship Le Saint-Rémi bound
for New Orleans] with 3 siblings, &, calling him Aimable-Étienne
[LANDRY], says he was born 10 Dec 1765 but gives no birthplace; BRDR,
2:416, 595 (ASC-2, 12), his marriage record, calls him Aimable LANDRY, does
not give his or his wife's parents' names, & gives no witnesses to his
marriage; BRDR, 5(rev.):352 (ASM-3, 225), his death/burial record,
calls him Étienne Aimable LANDRY, "age 67 yrs.," but does not give his
parents' names or mention a wife.

He & his younger brother Abraham-Isaac may have been the
only direct male descendants of René LANDRY l'aîné of Acadia to
emigrate to Louisiana. The many other Acadian LANDRYs who came to the
colony were descendants of René l'aîné'syounger cousin, René
le jeune.

Wall
of Names, 21, implies that René LANDRY was a widower when he arrived in LA, so
Arsenault's marriage date for this couple is absurd. Since they were both
unmarried when they reached LA & were counted together in the Cabanocé
census of 1769, they were likely married at Cabanocé some time between late
1766 & mid-1769.

Her estimated birth year is taken from the ages given in the
Cabanocé/St.-Jacques census of 1769 & the Ascension census of 1770, which
agree, not from her burial record, which seems to exaggerate her age.

09.Wall of Names,
23, calls her Anne LANDRY veuve Joseph MELANSON; Arsenault,
Généalogie, 2447,
profile for Augustin BROUSSARD in the LA section, says
nothing about her marriage to Joseph MELANÇON; Hébert, D., Southwest LA
Records, 2-A:565 (SM Ch.: v.4, #907), her death/burial record, calls her
Anne LANDRY, "native of Acadia, widow of Augustin BROUSSARD, inhabitant at
Vermilion," says she was "age 78 years" when she died "at the home of her
son Auguste [BROUSSARD], living at the same place [Vermilion]," that she was
buried next day "in the parish cemetery," but does not give her parents'
names. See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey,
178; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 5; De Ville, Southwest LA Families,
1777, 14.

Arsenault does mention her
on p. 2554 as having married Joseph MELANÇON in c1758. Wall of Names
lists her as widow of Joseph MELANÇON, which is verified by information in
the Attakapas census of 1777. Arsenault, p. 2554, says that Joseph "décédé avant 1769,"when
Anne, listed as a widow, occupied lot number 141 on the east side of the
Mississippi at Cabanocé. The only Joseph MELANÇON listed in the earlier Cabanocé census, that of 1766,
was 15 & had no wife or children, so that is probably another Joseph
MELANÇON. See Bourgeois, p. 169. I will follow Wall of Names
& assume that Joseph died in exile, before reaching LA, & therefore
should not be included on this list of Acadian exiles to LA until I find
evidence to the contrary.

For how I derived Anne's marriage date with Joseph as c1760, see the footnote for the profile of Augustin
BROUSSARD, which also explains how I derived the c1769/1770 marriage date
with Augustin.

Family historian Ben Londeree suggested who her parents
might be.

10.Wall of Names,
19, calls her Anne LANDRY. See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the
Colonies, 157.

Her marriage to Michel BOURGEOIS is pure guess
work. Her middle name is from the marriage
record in Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians,
425, & the Cabanocé census of 1769 in Voorhies, J., p. 467, &
Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 176.

12.Wall of Names,
20, calls her Anne LANDRY; BRDR, 2:198, 418 (SJA-1, 48), her marriage record,
calls her Anne LANDRY of Acadia, gives her & her husband's parents' names,
says both sets of parents were Acadians, & that the
witnesses to her marriage were Mathurin BENOIT, Herman BREAU, & Joseph
LANDRY [probably her brother]; BRDR, 2:416 (ASM-3, 14), her
death/burial record, calls her Ana LANDRY, age 34 years, spouse of Joseph
COMMAUX, but does not give her parents' names.

Her middle name is from her daughter Rosalie COMEAUX's marriage record,
dated 29 Aug 1796, in BRDR,
2:201 (ASM-2, 21). Rosalie married Jean George MALBROUGH, & their daughter
Euphrosine MALBROUGH was the second wife of Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste
dit Petit-René LANDRY, paternal ancestor of alligator hunter Troy
Landry of The History Channel's popular series "Swamp People."
Moreover, Anne-Isabelle was the sister of Baptiste dit René's father
Pierre Alexis LANDRY.

13.Wall of Names,
18, calls her Anne LANDRY; BRDR, 2:417 (SGA-8, 10, #41), her
death/burial record, calls her Anna LANDRY, age 46 years & spouse of
Alexandro HEVER, but does not give her parents' names. See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the
Colonies, 157; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians,
434; De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 9.

Her estimated birth year is from the ages given in the Spanish report of 1767&
her burial record, not the
St.-Gabriel census of 1777.

15.Wall of Names,
19, calls her Anne LANDRY; BRDR, 2:417, 622 (ASC-1, 127), her
marriage record, calls her Anna LANDRY, give her & her husband's parents'
names, says both sets of parents were Acadians & his parents also were "res.
St. Gabriel at Manchac," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Anselme
LANDRY & Jean LANDRY.

Her husband may have been the Joseph RICHARD with the family
of Bonaventure LEBLANC at Baltimore, MD, in Jul 1763. See Jehn,
Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 158. This is significant because
Bonaventure LEBLANC's son Joseph dit Adons married Anne's older
sister Marguerite.

Was she with her husband at St.-Gabriel in 1777? See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777,
3

16.Wall of Names,
16, calls her Anne LANDRY veuve DUGAS; Arsenault, Généalogie,
2527, profile for Mathurin LANDRY in the LA section, calls her Anne LANDRY, says
they married in c1768 but gives no place of marriage, does not give her
parents' names, her birth year or her birth place, & says nothing of her
being a widow; Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 171, perhaps her marriage
record, calls her Anne LANDRY, & says she & her husband were married
"presumably 1768," but gives no place of marriage; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 425,
perhaps her marriage record, calls her Anne LANDRIE, & says she &
her husband were among the "Acadians married in the city," but
does not give a marriage date; BRDR, 3:479 (ASC-4, 127), probably her
death/burial record, calls her Anne LANDRY, "age 78 yrs., wid. LANDRY," but
does not give her parents' names or her husband's first name. See also Bourgeois,
p.175; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 2, 12.

I am only guessing, thru process of elimination, that this is the Anne LANDRY who married
Mathurin LANDRY. He came to LA in
1768, so she may have arrived then as well.

Are her sons Athanase & Michel DUGAS
double listings in Wall of Names for the sons of Jean DUGAS & Marie-Charlotte GODIN, who had
2 sons with the same names?

17.Wall of Names,
31 (pl. 7R), calls her Anne [LANDRY], & lists her with her parents &
3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 106, Family No. 196; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 24-25, calls
her Anne, sa [Jean-Baptiste LANDRY's] fille, age 9, on the
embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her
Anne LANDRY, his [Jean-Baptiste LANDRY's] daughter, age 9, on the complete
listing, says she was in the 60th Family aboard La Bergère with her
parents & 3 siblings, & that, calling her Marie-Anne, she was born
in 1775 but gives no birthplace; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-B:320-21, 432-33 (SM Ch.: v.4, #228), her marriage record, calls her
Marie-Anne LANDRY of Châtellerault in Saintonge, France, says her husband
was from St. James Parish on the Mississippi, gives her &
his parents' names, says both her parents were deceased at the time of the
wedding, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Jean-Baptiste
BROUSSARD, Pierre HARDY, Jean-Baptiste DAUTREUIL, Pierre GIROUARD, &
Frédéric TENHOLT; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:391 (Laf.Ch.:
v.3, p. 86), her death/burial record, calls her Marie Anette LANDRY, m.
Joseph GIROIR, but does not give her parents' names.

The Vermilionville priest who recorded her burial misstated
her age by a decade!

Why did the priest who recorded her marriage call her Ausite,
which is Osite? Was this a dite for Ann?

21.Wall of Names,
45, calls her Anne LANDRY; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 542-43,
Family No. 611; BRDR, 2:219, 417 (SJO-3, 6), the record of
her first marriage,
calls her Anna Maria LANDRY, calls her husband Simon DEGRE, says her parents
were Grineo [LANDRY] & Margarita BALA "of Isle of Malo," that his parents were Olivero [DEGRE] & Maria LeBlanche LEBLANC "of Bellille en Mer, France," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Josef VASQ & Simon Pedro DEGRE
[her husband's first cousin]; BRDR, 2:342, 442 (PCP-19), the record
of her second marriage, calls her Marie LANDRY, widow of Simon DAIGLE, calls
her husband Pierre GUÉDERY, "res. Manchac," gives her & his parents'
names, says her mother & both of his parents were deceased at the time of the
wedding, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Mato GUÉDRY, Groom's
Brother, & François or Françoise DAIGLE.

Pointe Coupée was northwest & across the river from Manchac.
Why didn't she & her second husband marry at Baton Rouge, which was closer
to Manchac & had its own church since 1793?

22.Wall of Names,
30 (pl. 7L), calls her Anne-Susanne [LANDRY], & lists her with her
parents & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes,
108, Family No. 200, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Anne-Suzanne
LANDRY; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 16-17, calls her
Anne-Susanne, sa [Pierre LANDRY's] fille, age 9, on the
embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her
Anne-Susanne LANDRY, his [Pierre LANDRY's] daughter, age 9, on the complete
listing, says she was in the 28th Family aboard La Bergère with her
parents & 3 siblings, &, calling her Anne-Suzanne, says she was baptized in
1776 but gives no place of baptism; BRDR, 3:479, 685 (ASM-2, 92), her
marriage record, calls her Ana Susana LANDRY of Nantes, calls her husband
Félix PENRO "of Painboeuf, Nantes," gives her & his parents' names, says her
father was deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to her
marriage were Jean Rafaël LANDRY [her brother] & Antonio BOUTARY.

Was her mother-in-law a TRAHAN? BRDR, 3:685,
hints that she was, calling her Rosa TRAUAIN TRAHAN. Are the BRDR's
compilers telling us that she was a TRAHAN? The other half of the
marriage record in 3:479 does not include the TRAHAN addition.

23. Not in Wall of Names.
Arsenault, Généalogie,
2526, calls him Anselme LANDRY, says he was born in 1734, probablement son of Alexandre LANDRY &
Anne FLAN, says he married Osithe LANDRY but gives no wedding date or place
nor her parents' names,
says his children were Joseph-Eusèbe, born in 1773, & Marie-Céleste in 1778,
but gives no birth place, & lists him with brothers Joseph, Firmin,
Paul-Marie, & François-Sébastien[sic]; BRDR, 1b:102 (PCP-3, 282; PCP-4, 39), his marriage record,
calls him Anselme LANDRY, "native of Acadia," calls his wife
Marie-Magdeleine LANDRY, "native of Holy Family Parish, Acadia," gives his &
her parents' names, calls his mother Anne FLANE, says he & his wife were
granted dispensation for consanguinity of the 4th degree, & says the
witnesses to their marriage were Jean LANDRY [his brother], Paul LANDRY [his
brother], Firmin LANDRY [his brother], & Jean LANDRY; BRDR, 3:481
(ASC-4, 52), perhaps his death/burial record, calls him Anselme LANDRY, but
does not give his parents' names, mention a wife, or give his age at
the time of his death. See also De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777,
4.

His estimated birth year is from the St.-Gabriel census of
1777.

Although he is recorded at Baltimore in Jul
1763 with his family, he is not in the 1767 Spanish report for St.-Gabriel with them. So
when did he reach LA? He is not on the list of MD exiles who reached New
Orleans in Feb 1768. But he had reached the colony in time to
marry in Apr 1769. The third--& final--group of Acadian exiles from MD did not reach
LA until Oct 1769; this was the ill-starred expedition aboard the English
ship Britannia out of Port Tobacco. Very few Acadians made it to LA as individuals; almost
all of them came as members of parties who were duly recorded by French &
Spanish officials at New Orleans. Perhaps Anselme LANDRY was an exception to the
rule, which may explain why this Acadian immigrant, so thoroughly documented in
LA record, is not in Wall of Names. See <thecajuns.com/britania.htm>,
"Passengers on the Ship Britania"; Voorhies, J., Some Late
Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 428-39.

His first marriage was recorded in Pointe Coupée because St.-Gabriel,
where he lived, did not have a church
until 1773, Ascension downriver from St.-Gabriel did not have a church
until 1772, & Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, even farther downriver, did not have
its own church until 1770. Thus, Pointe Coupée (whose parish,
St.-François, was created in 1728) was the closest community to St.-Gabriel in
1769 with a church & a priest. Either the couple & the wedding party went up to Pointe Coupée for the wedding, or, more likely, the priest from Pointe Coupée
married them at St.-Gabriel while making his missionary rounds to the
Acadian communities downriver.

Was Osithe, or Osite, his wife's dite? If so,
it would be an usual one for someone named Marie-Madeleine. The
baptismal record of son Joseph-Eusèbe, dated 13 Apr 1774, in BRDR,
2:430 (SGA-4a, 6), the marriage records of daughter Céleste, dated 4 May 1794 & 25 Jul 1802,
of son Eusèbe, dated 9 Feb 1795, & son Pierre, dated 25 Apr 1802, in BRDR, 2:420 (ASC-2, 58), 2:421 (ASC-2, 100),
2:423 (ASC-2, 62), 2:447 (ASC-2, 95), call the mother Osita
LANDRY & Osite LANDRY, not Marie-Madeleine, probably the
source for Arsenault, cited above. However, the baptismal record of
oldest son Anselme-Bénoni, dated 4 Jun 1770, in BRDR, 2:418 (SJA-1,
2a), calls the mother ... Marie Magdelaine LANDRIS, not Osite. Note that in the St.-Gabriel census
of 1777, the census taker did not record Anselme's wife's name, only her
presence in his household--typical of that census.

One wonders, then, if Anselme remarried to another
LANDRY named Osite in the early 1770s. Neither of the 2 Osite LANDRYs listed
in Wall of Names fit here, nor do 2 of the 3 LANDRYs whose middle
name was Osite. Rose-Osite LANDRY, called Osite, widow of Janvier
BREAUX, who came to LA as a 30-year-old widow in 1768 with the BREAU clan
from MD & settled with them at San Luìs de Natchez, could fit the
bill. She & Anselme were the same age, & Rose-Osite could have moved
to St.-Gabriel in 1769 or 1770 after the Spanish released the Acadians from
Natchez. Still, the age given for Anselme's wife at St.-Gabriel in
1777--35, compared to his 39--is off by years if the wife was Osite, widow of Janvier
BREAUX (as I said, Anselme & Osite were the same age). Note,
however,
that in the St.-Gabriel census of 1777, Anselme and his unnamed wife had an
unnamed 13-year-old daughter in their household. Osite's daughter
Marguerite BREAUX, born in c1763, would have been 14 in 1777 (Marguerite married Pierre LEBLANC at nearby Ascension in Oct 1778 at age 15). But Osite also had daughters named Madeleine BREAUX, born in c1765, and Marie
BREAUX, born in Aug 1767, who would have been ages 12 & 10 in 1777.
The only other child listed with Anselme LANDRY in 1777 was a 6-year-old
son (perhaps Anselme-Bénoni by his first wife), so one wonders what happened
to the other girls.
Still, I am convinced that Anselme had 2 wives.

His burial record is merely a guess because of the sloppy
record keeping of the priest(s) at Ascension. It would have been nice
if the priest had at least given Anselme's wife's name or his age at the time
of his death.

24.Wall of Names,
28 (pl. 6R), calls him Anselme LANDRY, & lists him with his wife &
no children; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 522, Family No. 587,
calls him Anselme LANDRY, gives his parents' names, says he was born in
c1743 but gives no birthplace, details his marriage; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 6-7, calls
him Anselme LANDRY, marin, age 50, on the embarkation list, Anselmo
LANDRY on the debarkation list, & Anselme LANDRY, sailor, age 50, on the
complete listing, says he was in the 21st Family aboard Le Bon Papa
wit his wife, & details his marriage but does not give the names of his
or his wife's parents; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:336 (Thib.Ct.Hse.:
Succ.: Year 1810), his death/succession record, calls him Anselme LANDRY,
but does not give his parents' names, mention a wife, or even give his age
at the time of his death. See also Robichaux, Bayou
Lafourche, 1770-98, 51, 75, 125.

His estimated birth year is based not on the age given in the passenger list of Le Bon
Papa but on the ages given in the Lafourche valley censuses of 1795, 1797, &
1798, which conform to Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo. Note how much younger he was than his
wife.

25.Wall of Names,
19 (pl. 4L), calls him Athanase LANDRY, & lists him with his wife &
no children; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2534, calls him Athanase
LANDRY, does not give his birth year or his parents' names, calls his wife
Madeleine HÉBERT but does not give his wedding date or place of marriage,
lists only 1 child, son Joseph, born in 1778 but gives no birthplace,
& says he settled at St.-Gabriel. See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles
in the Colonies, 157; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians,
433; De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 9.

His estimated birth year is taken from the age given in the Spanish report of 1767, not
the St.-Gabriel census of 1777.

26.Wall of Names,
19, calls him Augustin LANDRY; White, DGFA-1, 951, calls him Augustin
LANDRY, gives his parents' names, says, according to testimony given by
relatives at Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, that he was born at Ste.-Famille,
Pigiguit, in May 1719, that he married first to Anne, daughter of Étienne
RIVET & Anne LEPRINCE, at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in 1742, that he married
again to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean BABIN & Marguerite BOURG, at
Pigiguit in c1752, says he was at Upper Marlboro, MD, in 1763, was on the
list of LA arrivals in 1767, age 49, on the list of arrivals at St.-Gabriel
in 1767, age 42 (sic), & that he was buried at St.-Gabriel on 2 May
1781, no age given; BRDR, 2:418 (SGA-5, 53), probably his
death/burial record, calls him Augustin LANDRY "of Manchak," but does not
give his parents' names, mention a wife, or give his age at the time of his
death. See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies,
155; De Ville, St. Gabriel Census,
1777, 9.

There were
2 Augustin LANDRYs at St-Gabriel, evidently no kin to one another. The
Augustin LANDRY who married Anne-Marie FOREST seems to have been the younger one
who later married Isabel LANDRY, widow of Etienne RIVET, père. See note 27, below.

27.Wall of Names,
19 (pl. 4L), calls him Augustin LANDRY 2, & lists him with siblings
Alexandre, Pierre, Anne-Madeleine, Geneviève, Cécile, & Madeleine; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2524-25,
calls him Augustin LANDRY, says he was born in 1734, son of Joseph [LANDRY]
& Marie-Josèphe COMEAUX of Grand-Pré, says he married Anne-Marie FOREST in
c1760 but gives no place of marriage, says he was at St.-Gabriel d'Iberville
but gives no date, & lists his children as Marie-Christine, born in 1777, &
Marie-Francoise in 1779 but gives no birthplaces; BRDR, 2:418, 427-28
(SGA-14, 4), the record of his second marriage, calls him Augustin LANDRI,
widower of Maria FORET, calls his wife Isabel LANDRI, widow of Esteban
RIVET, gives his & her parents' names, says both sets of parents were "of
Acadia," but does not give any witnesses to his marriage; BRDR,
2:418 (SGA-8, 16, #75), probably his death/burial record, calls him
Augustino LANDRY, but does not give his parents' names, mention a wife, or
give his age at the time of his death.
See also See Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 153; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians,
435.

In his LA section, Arsenault complicates the picture by
including on p. 2524 another Augustin LANDRY, born in c1758, son of
Joseph LANDRY & Marie RICHARD of Pigiguit, married first to Marie FOREST &
then to Isabelle LANDRY, daughter of Pierre LANDRY & Claire BABIN & widow
of Étienne RIVET, at St.-Gabriel in 1786, lists his children as, from the
first marriage, Marie-Françoise, born in 1779 but gives no birthplace, &
says this Augustin LANDRY was the brother of Pierre & Alexandre.

I am combining Arsenault's 2 Augustin LANDRYs, giving him
the correct set of parents, the most likely birth year, & 2 wives, for the
following reasons:

White, DGFA-1, 925, shows that the Joseph
LANDRY who married Marie-Josèphe COMEAUX died in Jun 1764 at St.-Servan,
France. That means his children would have come to
LA from France, not MD, but that did not happen; the Acadians who settled at San Luis de
Natchez in 1768 came from MD.

Wall of Names insists that its Augustin LANDRY 2 was
the older brother & probably the guardian of 6 his siblings--all children of
Joseph LANDRY & Marie-Josèphe RICHARD. Since Joseph & Marie are not
listed with their 7 children in Wall of Names, they did not come to
LA but likely had died in exile, doubtlessly in MD, because they were at
Port Tobacco in Jul 1763. See Jehn, cited above.

Arsenault, pp. 2524-25, says that the Augustin LANDRY born
in 1743 married Anne-Marie FOREST
in c1760 & says she gave him 2 daughters in 1777 & 1779, which means that he
would have come to LA with a wife. But Wall
of Names lists him only with his siblings, not with a wife, which means
if he had married Anne-Marie FOREST in c1760, she would have been dead in Feb 1768
when he reached the colony.
However, BRDR, 2:440, 443 (ASC-1, 27; ASC-1, 59), shows the baptisms of 2 girls in 1774
(not 1777) & 1779 at Ascension who were daughters of ... Augustin LANDRY & Anne-Marie or Maria FORET, so the
real Augustin most likely married after he came to LA despite
Arsenault's marrying him off to Anne-Marie in c1760.

28.Wall of Names,
19, calls him Basil LANDRY 2, & lists him singly; Arsenault,
Généalogie, 2524; BRDR, 2:419,
626 (SJA-1, 38a), the record of his first marriage, calls him Basille LANDRY, calls his
wife Marie RICHARD, gives his & her parents' names, calls his mother
Marguerite PONDEROTTE, says both sets of
parents were "of Acadia," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Éstienne
LANDRY & Michel DUGAS; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-A:472-73, 577 (SM Cte.Hse.: OA-v.4 1/2 #89; SM Ch.: v.3, #138), the
records of his second marriage, dated 27 Sep 1786 in the courthouse record &
3 Oct 1786 in the church record, call him Basil/Basile LANDRY, "native of
Acadia," calls his wife Marianne MIRE, "from the parish of St. Jacques sur le fleuve
(on the River), says she was a minor daughter, gives his & her parents'
names, says his father was deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the
witnesses to his marriage were Simon BROUSSARD, Charles PREJEAN, Firmain
GIROUARD, Jean-Baptiste CORMIER, Simon MIRE, & Magdelaine CORMIER.

There is not doubt that he was the Basile LANDRY who
married Marie-Anne MIRE.

The Attakapas censuses of 1781 & 1785 do not include the names
or the ages of dependents, so it is difficult to tell which Basile LANDRY is being listed, the
one born in c1750 or the older one born in c1727, hence the ?s at the end of the notation.

29.Wall of Names,
19, calls him Basil LANDRY; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2522, the LA
section, calls him Basile LANDRY, says he was born in 1727, gives his
parents' names, says they were "de Pisiguit, Acadie," says he married
Brigitte BOUDREAUX in c1753 but gives no place of marriage, gives her
parents' names, says his second wife was Francoise VINCENT, gives the date &
place of their marriage & her parents' names but not her first husband's
name, & says he died at Donaldsonville on 12 Mar 1788 but does not give his
age at the time of his death; White, DGFA-1,
951, calls him Basile LANDRY, jumeau [of sister Brigitte], gives his
parents' names, says, according to the testimony given by relatives at
Belle-Île-en-Mer in France that he was born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, on 14
May 1727, says he married Brigitte BOUDROT in c1753 but gives no place of
marriage, gives her parents' names, says his second wife was Anne-Euphrosine
VINCENT, widow of Michel TRAHAN, gives the date & place of their marriage &
her parents' names, says he was at Upper Marlboro, MD, in 1763, on the list
of LA arrivals in 1768, age 42, & that he died at St.-Martinville on 12 Mar
1788, age 60; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:472-73, 789 (SM Cte.Hse.:
OA-v.4 1/2 #90; SM Ch.: v.3, #115), the records of his second marriage,
dated 15 Mar 1786 in the courthouse record & 23 May 1786 in the church
record, call him Basile LANDRY, "native of Acadia" & "de la
paroisse de la Ste. Famille à Piquiguy en Acadie (from the Parish of
Holy Family at Pisiguit in Acadia)," says he was a major son, calls his wife
Francoise/Marie-Froisine VINCENT, "wid. of Michel TRAHAN, also native of
Acadie" & "a widow, natif de la Paroisse de la Vielle Habitation en
Acadie (native of the Parish of the Old Habitation in Acadia)," says she
was a major daughter, gives his & her parents' names, says both fathers were
deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to his marriage
were Élie & Jacques JENNE, Mr. DUCREST, "officier Major de ce Poste
(Major officer of this Post)," Amand LANDRY, Claude DUHON, Louis ROGER, &
Paul TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:472 (SM Ch.: v.4,
#21), perhaps his death/burial record, calls him Basile LANDRY m. Marie
MIRE[sic], does not give his parents' names, & says he died "at age a
little over 60 yrs."

Which parish in Acadia was de la Vielle Habitation,
or the Old Habitation? St.-Jean-Baptiste on the lower river at
Port-Royal was the colony's oldest surviving "habitation" & its original
church parish. However, Anne-Euphrosine dite Françoise VINCENT
was born at Grand-Pré in May 1726, not at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, &
Grand-Pré's parish was St.-Charles-des-Mines. Is "old habitation"
referring to the oldest parish in the Minas Basin? Or perhaps a stream
in the Minas Basin. See
Appendix
for a list of church parishes in Acadia before the exile.

The Attakapas censuses of 1781 & 1785 do not include the names
or the ages of dependents, so it is difficult to tell which Basile LANDRY is
being listed, the one born in c1727 or the younger one born in c1750, hence the ?s at the end of the notation.

Why does Arsenault say that he died at Donaldsonville when
his burial was recorded at Attakapas? Why does the priest at Atakapas who recorded his burial say
he married Marie MIRE, who actually was the wife of the younger
Basile LANDRY? Strange.

30.Wall of Names,
38 (pl. 10L), calls her Bonne-Louise-Marie LANDRY, soeur [of Aimable
LANDRY], & lists her with 3 siblings, with the notation: suplement
a la liste des Acadiens embarques dans le navire Le St. Remy pour la Nouvelle
Orleans [additional list of Acadians embarked on the ship Le St.-Rémi
bound for New Orleans]; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 271, her
birth/baptismal record, calls her Bonne-Marie-Louise LANDRY, & gives her
parents' but not her godparents' names; Robichaux, Acadians in
Châtellerault, 65-66,
Family No. 130, calls her Bonne-Louise [LANDRY], gives her parents' names,
& details her family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 107,
Family No. 198, calls her Bonne-Louise [LANDRY], gives her parents' names,
& details her family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert,
D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 60-61, calls her
Bonne-Louise-Marie, sa [Aimable LANDRY's] soeur, age 17, on
the embarkation list, & Bonne-Louise-Marie LANDRY, his [Aimable LANDRY's]
sister, age 17, on the complete listing, says she was in the 6th Family on Supplément à la
liste des Acadiens embarqués dans le navire Le Saint-Rémi pour la nouvelle-orleans
[Additional list of Acadians embarked on the ship Le Saint-Rémi bound
for New Orleans] with 3 siblings, & that she was born 14 Apr 1767 but
gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:434 (ASC-1, 164), probably her
marriage record, calls her Luisa LANDRY, calls her husband Lucas MAROIS "of
Veneciano (Italy?)," says the marriage took place on "11 Feb 1788 (sic)
1786 intended," does not gives any of the parents' names, & says the
witness to her marriage was Juan ESTNADO.

The 1786 date of this marriage, the dearth of Louise LANDRYs
in LA at this time, & the fact that most of the passengers aboard L'Amitié
settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, lead me to believe that she was the
wife of Lucas MAROIS. If it is her, why did none of her siblings witness
her marriage? Also, if this is her, she was widowed within weeks of
her marriage. BRDR, 2:517 (ASC-1, 198c), has a burial
record for Lucas MAROI/MAROIS, a Venetian, buried 23 Sep 1786 at
Ascension. There was a Joaquin MAROI/MAROIS at Ascension who married
Rosalie FORET; he & Lucas may have been brothers. If so, Lucas MAROIS's parents would have been Carlos MAROIS & Carlotta OLIVIER,
but this is pure speculation.

Did she remain on upper Bayou Lafourche after her husband's
death? If not, where did she go?

32.Wall of Names,
10, calls her Catherine LANDRY veuve Antoine BABIN; White, DGFA-1,
61, calls her Catherine LANDRY, does not give her parents' names, gives her
husband's name & his parents' names, details her marriage, & says her
husband died before 20 Jun 1768; BRDR,
2:420 (ASC-1, 188a), probably her death/burial record, calls her Catalina
LANDRY, age 60 years, but does not give her parents' names or mention a
husband. See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians,
436, 438.

Why does White say her husband died "av [avant,
or before] 20 juin 1768"? The Spanish report of 1768, dated
months earlier, in Feb or Mar, soon after the BREAU party reached LA,
clearly calls her a widow. See Voorhies, J., cited above. One
wonders how much longer before the date did he die. Months?
Years?

Wall of Names includes her with the LANDRY siblings supervised by
eldest brother Augustin, which church records reveal were children of Joseph LANDRY
& Marie-Josèphe RICHARD (see, for example, the marriage records of Augustin, Geneviève, & Madeleine
LANDRY in BRDR, 1b:102, 2:418, 435); however, Cécile's marriage record,
cited above, calls her mother Marie DUGAS, not RICHARD. Strange.

Her estimated birth year is taken from the age given Spanish
report of Feb 1768, which differs considerably from the St.-Gabriel census
of 1777.

Her marriage was recorded at Pointe-Coupée because the
Acadian community of San Luìs de Natchez, upriver from Pointe-Coupée, did
not have a priest, so the Point-Coupée priests served that community also.
The marriage is recorded--twice--in Father Hébert's Southwest LA Records
because 2 of her RIVET grandsons left St.-Gabriel & settled on the western
prairies in the 1820s and 1830s.

34.Wall of Names,
19 (pl. 4L), calls him Charles LANDRY, & lists him with siblings Marie &
Pélagie; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2526, calls him Charles
LANDRY, says he was born in 1738, son of Charles LANDRY &
Marie LEBLANC of "Pisiguit," says
he married Marie LANDRY in c1760 but does not give the place
of marriage or her parents' names, details his second
marriage, including his wife's parents' names, says he occupied lot
number 162 on the east bank of the Mississippi at St.-Jacques in 1769, that
his sister Pélagie, born in 1749, lived with him in 1769, that he moved to
Ascension, & lists his children as, by his first marriage, Pierre-Baptiste,
born in 1773, by his second
marriage, Ange, born in 1777, Céleste in 1779, Mathilde in 1781, &
Marie-Madeleine in 1782, but gives no birth places, & lists him with
brothers Jacques & Amand; BRDR, 2:51, 420 (ASC-1, 131 & 132),
the record of his second marriage, calls him Charles LANDRY, widower of
Marie LANDRY of Acadia, does not give his parents' names, calls his
second wife Maria BABIN, gives her parents' names, & says the witnesses
to his marriage were Joseph LANDRY & Pierre LANDRY; BRDR, 3:483
(ASC-4, 54), perhaps his death/burial record, calls him Carlos LANDRY, but
does not give his parents' names, mention a wife, or give his age at the
time of his death. See also Jehn, Acadian
Exiles in the Colonies, 156; Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 178; Voorhies, J.,
Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 485; Robichaux, Bayou
Lafourche, 1770-98, 7, 18; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1785,
5.

Landry family historian Ben Londeree believes that Arsenault
is wrong about the parents of this Charles LANDRY. Notice that they
have the same names as the parents of the Charles LANDRY who came to LA in
1785.

The only evidence linking him to the Attakapas District is
the Attakapas census of 1785, & that is tenuous. All of his
children married on the river, so the Charles LANDRY in Attakapas may have
been someone else, hence the question marks.

His burial record is merely a guess because of the sloppy
record keeping of the priest(s) at Ascension. It would have been nice
if the priest had at least given Charles's wife's name or his age at the time
of his death.

35.Wall of Names,
27 (pl. 6R), calls him Charles LANDRY, & lists him with his wife & 7
children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>,
Family No. 8, shows that he made the 1758-59 crossing to St.-Malo with the family of
widower Jean BUGEAU, 3 of BUGEAU's children, & another single person,
Jeanne, 36-year-old daughter of Jean LE BERE [LEBERT], who may have
been his kinfolk; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 525-26, Family No.
592; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 62, Family
No. 123, calls him Charles LANDRY, says he was born c1729 at L'Assomption, which is
Pigiguit, calls his parents Charles LANDRY & Marie LEBLANC, &
details his marriage, including his wife's birth year, her
parents' names, & the name of her first husband; Robichaux, Acadians
in Nantes, 102-03, Family No. 189, calls him Charles LANDRY, & details his marriage; Hébert, D., Acadian
Families in Exile 1785, 2-3, calls him Charles LANDRY, charpentier,
age 50, on the embarkation list, Carlos LANDRY on the debarkation list,
& Charles LANDRY, carpenter, age 50, on the complete listing, says he
was in the 4th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his wife & 7
children, & details his marriage, including the names of his
parents--Charles LANDRY & Marie LEBLANC--& the names of his wife's
parents; BRDR, 3:484 (SGA-8, 66), his death/burial record, calls him
Charles LANDRY, age 84, but does not give his parents' names or mention a
wife.

Note that his parents' names & place of residence in
Acadia are the same as the Charles LANDRY who came to LA in 1766.
Coincidence? Did his parents name 2 of their sons Charles, fils?

Why does the burial record of his son Jean-Jacques, dated 18
Oct 1828, in Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:337 (Thib.Ch.: v.1,
p.42), call him Joseph? Was his name Charles-Joseph or Joseph-Charles?
I have found this name in no other source that mentions him. Note that
his wife's first husband was Joseph HÉBERT.

36.Wall of Names,
27 (pl. 6R), calls him Charles [LANDRY], & lists him with his parents
& 6 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 102-03, family No.
189, his
baptismal record, calls him Charles LANDRY, gives his parents' but not his
godparents' names, & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois
settlement in Poitou during the early 1770s & its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families
in Exile 1785, 2-3, calls him Charles, son [Charles LANDRY's] fils,
age 8, on the embarkation list, Carlos, su [Carlos LANDRY's] hijo,
on the debarkation list, & Charles LANDRY, his [Charles LANDRY's] son,
age 8, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 4th Family aboard Le
Bon Papa with his parents & 6 siblings; BRDR, 3:516, 814 (ASM-2,
105), perhaps his marriage record, calls him Valentin LANDRY "of Chantenais,
France," gives his & his wife's parents' names, & says the witnesses to his
marriage were Juan RICHARD & Ambrosio HÉBERT.

38.Wall of Names,
29 (pl. 7L), calls her Claire LANDRY belle mère à la femme [of Claude LE
BLANC], & lists her with her daughter-in-law & her daughter-in-law's
second husband; White, DGFA-1, 925, calls her Claire
LANDRY, & thoroughly details her life except for a death/burial date,
which probably was not recorded; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile
1785, 14-15, calls her Claire LANDRY, belle-mère à la femme [of
Claude LEBLANC], age 75, on the embarkation list, does not include her on
the debarkation list, calls her Claire LANDRY, mother-in-law of the wife [of
Claude LEBLANC], age 75, on the complete listing, & says she was in the
15th Family aboard La Bergère with her daughter-in-law & her
daughter-in-law's second husband.

She was actually age 80 when she came to LA in 1785, so she
was one of the oldest Acadians to emigrate to the colony. Her
death/burial date has not been recorded, but she probably died soon after
she settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, if she survived the crossing
from France.

40.Wall of Names,
20, calls her Élisabeth LANDRY; BRDR, 2:422, 634 (ASC-1, 127), the
record of her first marriage, calls her Élisabeth LANDRY, calls her parents
"Pierre [LANDRY] & Claire BABEIN, Acadians, res. at St.
Gabriel," calls her husband Estevan RIVERT (RIVET), "widower of Claire
FORET, Acadian, resident at St.-Gabriel at Manchac," does not give his
parents' names, says the marriage took place "between 6 June & 4 July 1774",
& that the witnesses to her marriage were Abraham
LANDRY & Athanas LANDRY [her brother]; BRDR, 2:418, 427 (SGA-14,
4), the record of her second marriage, calls her Isabel LANDRY, widow of
Esteban RIVET, calls her husband Augustin LANDRI, widower of Maria FORET,
gives her & his parents' names, says both sets of parents were "of Acadia," but gives no witnesses to her
marriage; BRDR, 3:487 (SGA-8, 69), her death/burial record, calls her
Élizabeth LANDRY, "age 80, wid. Augustin LANDRY," but does not give her
parents' names. See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies,
157; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 434; De
Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 9.

If she was counted by the Spanish at St.-Gabriel in 1767
with her brother Pierre, older sister Marie, widow of Alexis GRANGER, &
niece Madeleine GRANGER, why does Wall of Names list her only with
brother Pierre? Wouldn't they have come to LA
together?

Why does her first marriage record say that her parents were
residents of St.-Gabriel in mid-1774 when they never came to LA, or does the
record mean that she was "res. at St. Gabriel," & not
her parents? Probably the latter.

Note how far off is her age in the St.-Gabriel census of
1777. Is this a misprint?

Her estimated birth year is taken from the age found in the
Spanish report of 1767, not the Opelousas census of 1777 or her burial
record.

42.Wall of Names,
20, calls her Élisabeth LANDRY; BRDR, 2:422, 539 (ASC-1, 124), her
marriage record, calls her Élisabeth LANDRY, calls her husband
Pierre-Jacques MELANSON, gives her & his
parents' names, says her parents were "of St. Gabriel at Manchac" & his "of
St. James," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Juan MELANÇON & Pierre
LANDRY; BRDR, 3:487 (SJA-4, 36), her death/burial record, calls her
Élizabeth LANDRY, "age about 60 yrs., wife of Jacques MELANSON," but does
not give her parents' names. See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the
Colonies, 156; Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians,
434.

I have found her in no other source, unless she was the
Isabelle LANDRY "of France, a widow," who died at Attakapas, age 53, in Dec
1787? See the burial record, dated 22 Dec 1787, in Hébert, D.,
Southwest LA Records, 1-A:476 (SM Ch.: v.4, #19). Sadly, the
priest failed to give not only her parents' names but her dead husband's
name as well.

The Élisabeth/Isabelle LANDRY who married Étienne RIVET at
Ascension in Jun or Jul 1774 & Augustin LANDRY at St.-Gabriel in Aug
1786 was born in c1734, the same year as the mysterious Élisabeth/Isabelle,
but probably at Minas, not France.

44.Wall of Names,
20, calls him Étienne LANDRY; Arsenault, Généalogie,
2525, calls him Étienne LANDRY, says he was born in 1734, probablement
son of Pierre LANDRY & Anne-Marie DOUCET "de Pisiguit," says he
married Marie-Josèphe LANDRY in 1734 but gives no place of marriage nor her
parents' names, says he occupied lot number 84 on the west side of the
Mississippi at St.-Jacques in 1769, this his sister-in-law Isabelle LANDRY
lived with him & his family, & lists his children as Anastasie, born in
1757, Jean-Baptiste in 1767, Ignace in 1769, Valentin in 1771,
Jean-Louis in 1772, Marie in 1773, & Joseph-Alexandre in 1775; BRDR,
2:423 (ASC-4, 4, #9), his death/burial record, calls him Estevan LANDRY, age
57 years, but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife. See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 175.

Arsenault has him married only to Marie-Josèphe LANDRY.
The note for daughter Anastasie,
above, explains why I have him married to 2 women.

And there is this complication: Wall of Names, 20, lists an Agnès with the family of Étienne LANDRY &
Marie-Josèphe LANDRY when they reached LA. I have found no other record
relating to this family either in MD or in LA that refers to a child named Agnès.
Arsenault, cited above, lists an Ignace, born in 1769, for
Étienne LANDRY & Marie-Josèphe LANDRY, as does the Cabanocé census of
1769, which says "d"[ daughter] Ygnace
was 3 months old. The census was taken in Sep, so she would have been born in
Jun 1769. Is this Agnès? The census at Ascension in 1770
calls Ygnace, who is only 1, a son. Did the researchers at the Acadian
Memorial, seeing Ygnace listed as a daughter in the 1769 census, assume
that the child's name was Agnès? Agnès is a
feminine name, & Ignace is masculine. An Ignace LANDRY,
age 6, was buried at Ascension on 11 Oct 1774. His parents were ... Stefan,
that is Étienne, LANDRY & Marie LANDRY. See BRDR, 2:427 (ASC-1,
174f). This child, then, most likely was a son named Ignace, as
Arsenault insists, not a daughter named Agnès, born at Cabanocé in c1769.
Since his family reached LA in Sep 1766, Ignace should not be listed at all in Wall of Names.

Did Étienne live on upper Bayou Lafourche, or did only his
sons settle there?

48.Wall of Names,
21, calls her Félicité LANDRY; Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 171, & Voorhies,
J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 425, the record of her
first marriage, calls her Magdelaine/Magdeleine LE BLANC, & calls her
husband Charles MELANÇO/MELENCON; BRDR, 2:43, 423 (ASC-2, 15), the
record of her second marriage, calls her Félicité LANDRY, widow of Carlos
MELANÇON, does not give her or her husband's parents' names, & says the
witnesses to her marriage were Isaac LEBLANC, Grégoire LEBLANC, Olivier
TERRIO, & Firmin LANDRY; BRDR, 3:489 (SJA-4, 29), her
death/burial record, calls her Félicité LANDRY, "age 55 yrs., wife of
Bonaventure BABIN," but does not give her parents' names. See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in
the Colonies, 156.

Arsenault, Généalogie, 2555, the profile for her
first husband in the LA section, gets her name right but says she & Charles
were married at Ascension. Madeleine LEBLANC was his mother's name!
Why the original record lists his mother's name in place of his wife's name
is anyone's guess.

Was her second husband the Charles BABIN, son of Antoine
BABIN & Catherine LANDRY, who came to LA with his widowed mother &
siblings in Feb 1768? There is no Bonaventure BABIN on the Acadian
Memorial's Wall of Names. Bonaventure BABIN died near St. Gabriel,
Iberville Parish, in May 1815, age 65, which gives him an estimated birth
year of c1750, the same one for Charles, son of Antoine BABIN. See BRDR,
3:48 (SGA-8, 72). Unfortunately, the priests at Ascension and St.
Gabriel never bothered to record Bonaventure's parents' names in his
marriage record, his children's baptismal & death records, or his burial
record, so his link to Charles is pure speculation based on a similar
estimated birth year.

49.Wall of Names,
20 (pl. 4L), calls him Firmin LANDRY, & lists him with children Joseph,
Saturin, Hélène, & Marie-Madeleine, but no wife; Arsenault, Généalogie,
1404, the Pigiguit section, & 2522, the LA section, call him Firmin LANDRY, says he was
born in c1725 & c1728, was sans doute & then probablement son of
Pierre LANDRY & Marguerite FOREST "de Pisiguit, Acadie," says he
married Élizabeth-Françoise THIBODEAUX in c1752 but gives no place of
marriage nor her parents' names, that he married Théotiste THIBODEAUX in
c1770 but gives no place of marriage nor her parents' names, says he was
deported to MD, settled at Attakapas in LA, & lists his
children, by his first wife, as Joseph, born in 1753, Saturin in 1755,
Hélène in 1757, & Marie-Madeleine in 1759, &, by his second wife, Françoise,
born in
1770, Hubert in 1773, Hélène in 1774, Rosalie in 1776, Valentin in 1778,
Marie in 1780, Alexandre in 1782, Agnès in 1784, & Marguerite in 1789, but
gives no birthplaces; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:428 (SM
Ch.: v.4, #231), his death/burial record, calls him Firmin LANDRY of Acadia,
son of Alexandre [LANDRY] & ____, says he "died suddenly ... at age 'sesenta
y dies y seis anos' (literally 60 and 16 years) 76 years, but does not
mention a wife or wives. See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the
Colonies, 156.

White, DGFA-1, 950-51, lists no Firmin as a child
of Pierre LANDRY & Marguerite FOREST in Acadia. Firmin's
burial record reveals his father's name, but not his mother's.
Following this burial record, which rejects Arsenault's choice for Firmin's
parents' names, a perusal of White shows that Alexandre, son of Germain
LANDRY & Marie MELANSON, who married Marguerite, daughter of Martin
BLANCHARD & Marguerite GUILBEAU, in c1723 is a good fit for Firmin's
parents. See White, p. 930. This would make Firmin a double
first cousin of Pierre dit Pierrot à Chaques, who was 6 or 7
years older than Firmin; who, like Firmin, was at Oxford, MD, in Jul 1763;
&, like Firmin, came to LA in 1766. This also would make Firmin a
nephew of the Jean-Baptiste LANDRY who was at Oxford in Jul 1763 & came to
LA in 1767.

If Firmin & his children reached LA in Sep 1766, why were they not
in the Cabanocé census of Sep 1769? The logic behind his Sep 1766 arrival date
is that the MD exiles who reached LA in 1767 & 1768 were well-documented by
the Spanish, but the 1766 arrivals were not. He & his children do not
appear on any of the 1767 & 1768 lists, &, besides, those Acadians were
sent to St.-Gabriel & San-Luìs de Natchez, respectively, not to Cabanocé, where
the 1766 exiles congregated. Also, many of the LANDRYs who came to LA
from MD in 1766 had been at Oxford, MD, in Jul 1763, as had Firmin.
Most likely they missed the Sep 1769 census because they had already moved
on to the Attakapas District. Evidently the Spanish did not take a
census at Attakapas between Apr 1766 & 1771 (if a census was taken
between those dates, it has not survived).

West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 92, ignoring Arsenault, says Firmin married his second wife,
Théotiste, in 1776. If, as Wall of Names indicates, Firmin was a widower when he came
to LA, then Arsenault's marriage date of c1770 makes sense in light of the
Attakapas censuses of 1771 & 1774, which show Firmin with a wife.

A clue to the identity of his second wife's parents is in
daughter Marie's baptismal record, dated 23 Apr 1780, in Hébert, D.,
Southwest LA Records, 1-A:479 (SM Ch.: v.3, #141), which calls the girls
godmother Marie-Louise THIBODO, "aunt of the baptized." Marie-Louise's
parents were Charles THIBODEAUX & Brigitte BREAUX. Brigitte came to LA
from Halifax in Feb 1765, a widow, with Marie-Louise, her youngest child, &
two other children & followed the BROUSSARDs to Bayou Teche. Théotiste
arrived soon afterward as a young widow, went to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques with
her in-laws, & married Firmin there. She would not have reunited with
her mother at Attakapas when she & Firmin moved there in c1770--Brigitte
BREAUX was one of the dozens of victims of the Teche valley epidemic of
1765.

The baptismal record of daughter Françoise, dated 24 Apr
1771, in BRDR, 2:425-25 (PCP-2, pt. 2, 109a; PCP-4, 70), provides the
approximate date of the family's arrival in the Attakapas District. The
Pointe Coupée priest who recorded the girl's baptism noted that she was born
on 22 Oct 1770 & that her baptism took place "at Attakappas." The
priest also noted that the girl's mother was ... Théotiste THIBODOT ... so
Firmin married his second wife in c1769 or 1770. Firmin was not the
first LANDRY to go to the western prairies, but he was the first male LANDRY
to go there & remain. He essentially established the western
branch of the LANDRY family in LA.

50.Wall of Names,
20, calls him Firmin LANDRY; BRDR, 2:424, 668 (ASC-1, 145 & 146), his
marriage record, calls him Firmin LANDRY, calls his wife Francisca Sally
SCANTEIN, gives his & her parents' names, says her parents were "of New
England," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Joseph LANDRY & Aman
BRAUD. See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 157.

51.Wall of Names,
21, calls him Firmin LANDRY; BRDR, 2:56, 424 (ASC-2, 18), the record
of his first marriage, calls him Firmin LANDRY, gives his & his wife's
parents' names, calls her father Sephrim [BABIN], & says the witnesses to
his marriage were Anselme LEBLANC, Joseph BABIN, & Joseph LEBLANC; BRDR,
2:424, 477 (ASM-2, 15), the record of his second marriage, calls him Firmin
LANDRY, widower of Victoria BABIN, gives his & his wife's parents' names, &
says the witnesses to his marriage were Grégoire LEBLANC & Jacques BABIN. See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the
Colonies, 156.

His second wife came to LA from France in 1785.
Although they
married at Assumption, they settled at Ascension on the river, not on upper
Bayou Lafourche.

52.Wall of Names,
19, calls him Firmin LANDRY; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2526, says he was
born in 1735; BRDR, 2:49, 424 (ASC-1, 126), the record of his second
marriage, calls him Firmin LANDRY, "widower of Marie LEBLANC, a native of
Acadia, res. St. Gabriel," calls his wife Louise BABIN, does not give his but
gives her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were
Pierre LANDRY, Maturin BENOIT, & Ignatius BABEIN; BRDR, 2:351, 424
(SGA-14, 17), the record of his third marriage, calls him Firmin LANDRY,
widower, calls his wife Maria HAMILTON, widow, gives his & her parents'
names but not his previous wives' names or her first husband's name, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Miguel GAREIDEL, Joseph
LEBLANC, & Carlos BRAUX; BRDR, 2:424 (SGA-8, 17, #83), probably
his death/burial record, calls him Fermin LANDRY, but does not give his
parents' names, mention a wife, or give his age at the time of his death. See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians,
431; De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 4.

Ben Londeree, on his website <landrygenealogy.com>
calls him Firmin-Damase, but I have found that name nowhere else. His
youngest son, by his third wife, born posthumously in Nov 1792, bore the
name. Was the boy given his father's full name?

His third wife's middle name is from the baptismal record of
granddaughter Marie Élisabeth LANDRY, dated 22 May 1825, in BRDR,
4:329 (SGA-6, 51).

He & his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had
no children.

54.Wall of Names,
20, calls him François LANDRY 2, & lists him singly; Arsenault,
Généalogie, 2522-23, calls him François LANDRY, says he was born in
1741, probablement son of François [LANDRY] & Dorothée BOURG of Pisiguit, says he married Rosalie DUGAS, born in 1750, in c1768 but gives no
place of marriage, that in 1769 he occupied lot number 116 on the east bank
of the Mississippi at St.-Jacques, & lists his children as Marguerite, born
in 1770, Marie-Rose in 1773, Édouard in 1775, & Geneviève in 1778 but gives
no birthplaces. See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey,
177; De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 13.

It is easy to confuse this François LANDRY with 2 other
François LANDRYs who also lived at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in the 1760s & 1770s.

55.Wall of Names,
19, calls him François LANDRY, & lists him with brother Amand & sister Anne; Bourgeois, Cabanocey,
172, his marriage record, calls him François LANDRY, & calls his wife
Marie-Rose LEBLANC; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians,
425, also his marriage record, calls him François LANDRIE, & calls his wife
Marie-Rozalie LE BLANC; BRDR, 2:425 (SJA-1, 63), perhaps his
death/burial record, calls him François LANDRY, "First Sergeant of Militia,"
but does not give his parents' names, mention a wife, or give his age at the
time of his death. See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies,
156.

This profile is pure guess work. He is easily confused
with 2 other François LANDRYs who lived at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques at the same
time & who were probably about the same age.

56.Wall of Names,
27 (pl. 6R), calls him François [LANDRY], & lists him with his parents
& 6 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 102-03, Family No.
189, his baptismal record, calls him François-Marie LANDRY, gives his
parents' but not his godparents' names, & details his family's participation
in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s before he was born, & their
voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 2-3,
calls him François, son [Charles LANDRY's] fils, age 6, on the
embarkation list, Francisco, su [Carlos LANDRY's] hijo, on the
debarkation list, & François LANDRY, his [Charles LANDRY's] son, age 6,
on the complete listing, & says he was in the 4th Family aboard Le
Bon Papa with his parents & 6 siblings; BRDR, 2:44, 425 (ASM-2,
78), the record of his first marriage, calls him François LANDRY of Nantes, France, calls
his wife Constancia BABIN, widow of Eusèbe LANDRY, gives his & her parents'
names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Pierre DUPLESIS & Urbin
BRAUX; BRDR, 5(rev.):43, 353 (SGA-14, 256), the record of his second
marriage, calls him François LANDRY, "bn. in Nantes, France," gives his &
his wife's parents' names, says all parents were deceased at the time of the
wedding, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Charles POUPARD, Alexcis
BRASSET, Joacin LEBLANC, & Francois GOMEZ; BRDR, 7:295 (SGA-8,
323), his death/burial record, calls him François LANDRY, "age 72 years,
native of France," but does not give any parents' names or mention a wife.

What brought him back to the river? He was "only" 70
years old when he died & one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in LA to
join our ancestors.

57.Wall of Names,
39 (pl. 10L), calls him François LANDRY, & lists him with 2
grandchildren & a nephew but no wife; White, DGFA-1,
938, calls him François LANDRY, gives his parents' names, his
birth/baptismal date & birthplace, followed here, says his godparents
were François BROUSSARD & Anne BOURGEOIS, wife of François GIROUARD,
details his 3 marriages, including all of his wives' parents' & previous
husbands' names, says he shared "disp 2-3 aff" with his third
wife, & details his sojourn in France; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes,
103, Family No. 190, calls him Francois LANDRY, says he was born in 1716
"in the Parish of Saint-Charles in Acadie," which was Grand-Pré,
gives his parents' names, says the name of his first wife is unknown,
details his other 2 marriages, says his third wife was born c1723, gives her
parents' & first husband's names, & details his & his second
wife's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Robichaux,
Acadians in Châtellerault, 63, Family No. 124, a history of his son
Germain's family, calls him François LANDRY, says his wife was
"deceased" Marie BABIN, that son Germain was born c1740 "in
the parish of L'Assomption in Acadie," which was Pigiguit, that Germain
married Cécille LA GARENNE, daughter of "deceased" Jean-Baptiste
LA GARENNE & Anne POITIER, 30 Jul 1767 at Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg,
Manche, that Cécille was born c1748 "in the parish of St. Pierre on
Île St.-Jean, that granddaughter Anne-Apoline LANDRY was baptized 30 Oct
1774 at Archigny, Vienne, the goddaughter of Pierre AMIRAULT & godmother
not named, & details German & his family's participation in the
Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in
Exile 1785, 68-69, calls him François LANDRY, charpentier, age
60, on the embarkation list, Francisco LANDRY, on the debarkation list,
& François LANDRY, carpenter, age 60, on the complete listing, says he
was in the 12th Family aboard L'Amitié with 2 grandchildren & a
nephew but no wife, says the grandchildren with whom he traveled were a
daughter & a son of his son Germain LANDRY, husband of Cécille
LAGARENNE, details his son's marriage, says François's wife was Marie BABEIN,
that granddaughter Bonne-Marie-Adélaïde was born 27 Jul 1769 but gives no
birthplace, that grandson Jean-Jacques-Frédéric was born 26 Jul 1770 but
gives no birthplace, & lists the implements the Spanish gave him after
he reached LA; BRDR, 2:425 (ASC-4, 24), his
death/burial record, calls him Francisco LANDRY, age 83 years, widower, but does not give his
parents' or his wives' names. See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1777-98, 24,
155.

I wish to thank Ben Londeree, LANDRY family historian, for
straightening me out on this fellow.

58.Wall of Names,
20, calls him François LANDRY; Arsenault, Généalogie,
2521, 2527, calls him Sébastien LANDRY & François-Sébastien LANDRY, says
he was born in c1738, calls his parents Alexandre LANDRY & his second
wife Rose LEBLANC of Pigiguit, calls him widower of Marguerite LEBLANC but
gives no date or place for this marriage, details his second marriage,
including his wife's parents' names & where they lived in France,
& lists his children as, by his first marriage, Isabelle, born c1770,
Luc-Alexandrein c1772, & Marguerite in 1777, but gives no birth places, &
gives no children by
the second marriage; BRDR, 2:325, 425 (ASC-2, 56), the record of his
second marriage, calls him Francisco LANDRY, widow of Marguerita
LEBLANC, calls his wife Maria Rosa GIROIRD,
does not give his but gives her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were
Pierre LANDRY & Juan Pedro HEVER [HÉBERT]; BRDR, 3:490 (ASC-4,
84), his death/burial record, calls him François LANDRY, "age 70 yrs., nat.
Acadia, res. Assumption, spouse Marie Rose GIROIR," but does not give his
parents' names. See also Voorhies, J., Some Late-Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 431; De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 4; 23;
Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche,
1770-98, 23, 67, 105, 113, 155.

The age given for him in the St.-Gabriel census of 1777
gives us a birth year that agrees with Arsenault, but the Spanish report of 1767 & the Ascension census of
1788, followed here, disagree.

It is easy to confuse this
François LANDRY, born in c1741, with François LANDRY, fils, also born in c1741,
son of probably François LANDRY, père, & Dorothée BOURG, & I may
have done so in some of the Lafourche censuses. I need
a LANDRY family historian to straighten me out here.

59.Wall of Names,
17, calls her Geneviève LANDRY, & lists her with Joseph GODIN dit
Lincour & daughter Rosalie as if they were married before
coming to LA.

60.Wall of Names,
19, calls her Geneviève LANDRY; BRDR, 1b:18, 102 (PCP-3, 259; PCP-4,
29), her marriage record, calls her Geneviève LANDRY, native of Acadia,
calls her husband Jean-Baptiste BELLOT, "native of Pavie, Italy, Sergeant of
Spanish troops," gives her & his parents' names, says his father was
deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to her marriage
were Anise RIVET, Cécille RIVET, & Michel RIVET [her brother-in-law]. See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies,
153.

Her marriage record was recorded at
Pointe Coupée because Fort San Luìs de Natchez did not have a priest of its own.
The couple, in fact, probably had to go downriver to be married at Pointe
Coupée. Her father also was deceased at the time of the wedding.
The name Jean-Baptiste BELLOT is a French version of his true name, Juan
Baptista BELOTI. See

Brasseaux, ed., Quest for the Promised Land,

153.

61.Wall of Names,
30 (pl. 7R), calls her Geneviève LANDRY soeur [of Marie-Joseph
LANDRY], & lists her with her sister & her sister's
"charge" Francois-Jullien ____; Hébert, D., Acadian Families
in Exile 1785, 20-21, calls her Geneviève LANDRY, soeur [of
Marie-Joseph LANDRY] age 34, on the embarkation list, Geneviève LANDRY, on
the debarkation list, & Geneviève LANDRY, sister [of Marie-Joseph
LANDRY], age 34, on the complete listing, says she was in the 38th Family
aboard La Bergère with her sister & her sister's
"charge," gives her parents' names, their marriage date but not
the place of marriage, lists the implements the Spanish gave to her
& her sister after they reached LA, & details her marriage in LA,
says she was born c1748 but actually 1751 based on the ship's passenger
list, & does not give the names of her or her husband's parents or place
of marriage; BRDR,
2:426, 646 (ASM-2, 11), her marriage record, calls her Genoveva LANDRY,
gives her & her husband's parents' names as well as the name of his first
wife, but gives no witnesses to her marriage; NOAR, 6:167 (SLC, F4,
34), her death/burial record, calls her Genoveva LANDRY, "native of Acadia
in Canada, 55 yrs., widow of Fransisco ROMAGOSA," says she died at Charity
Hospital, but does not give her parents' names.

63.Wall of Names,
20, calls her Hélène LANDRY; BRDR, 2:160, 427 (PCP-2, pt. 2, 116;
PCP-2, 76), her marriage record, calls her Hélène LANDRY of Acadia, gives
her & her husband's parents' names, says "all parties living at Attakapas, "
says her mother & his parents were deceased at the time of the wedding, &
that the witnesses to her marriage were Firmin LANDRY [her father] &
Baptiste LABOVE.

Although a church parish existed at Attakapas since 1765, its
remote location meant that sometimes the parish had no priest.
Opelousas, north of Attakapas, did not get its own church until 1776, so in
the early 1770s priests from Pointe Coupée would serve as missionaries to
the remote prairie settlements. How else does one explain the number
of marriages of Attakapas & Opelousas couples recorded at Pointe Coupée at
that time?

64.Wall of Names,
20, calls him Hyacinthe LANDRY; BRDR, 2:427 (SGA-8, 17, #87), his
death/burial record, calls him Hyasin LANDRY, but does not give parents'
names, mention a wife, or give his age at the time of his death. See
also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 157; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians,
431; De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 6.

He & his older brother Aimable-Étienne may have been the
only direct male descendants of René LANDRY l'aîné of Acadia to
emigrate to Louisiana. The many other Acadian LANDRYs who came to the
colony were descendants of René l'aîné'syounger cousin, René
le jeune.